renting

1. 1.

   the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car)

   Synonymsrental

   Broadertransaction

   car

Other forms of renting

plural

rentings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about renting

What does renting mean?

renting means "the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car)".

How many syllables are in renting?

renting has 2 syllables: ren-ting. The stress falls on "ren". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛntɪŋ/.

What is another word for renting?

Close synonyms include rental. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is renting a common word?

renting is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.