Thesaurus results for RENTS

rents 1 of 2

noun

plural of rent

as in slits

a long deep cut getting her skirt caught on a nail resulted in a four-inch rent that she couldn't possibly repair

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as in gaps

an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge) peered through the rent in the old garden wall for a glimpse of her mysterious new neighbor

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verb

present tense third-person singular of rent

as in leases

to give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment we rented the apartment to a college student for $500 a month

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as in hires

to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum will need to rent a car while we're in Europe

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Spain this month experienced broad protests against high rents and a lack of housing, which prompted the government to call a snap election. — Reuters, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026 Rent growth has cooled since its pandemic-era spike, hovering near zero from mid-2023 through 2025, and rents on new leases are now edging down. — Heather Occhino, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 With rents continuing to climb, finding an affordable place to live has become increasingly difficult for military service members returning home and veterans living on limited incomes. — Joan Murray, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 In California, the study states that while rents increased 61% from 1985-2023, median incomes rose by 45%. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The city's boathouse rents canoes, kayaks and stand-up paddleboards on a 109-acre lake, with hiking trails through the surrounding preserve. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 In those buildings that include 130 percent–AMI tenants, the rents come out so close to market rate that those middle-income tenants simply have a lot of other options. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 15 Oct. 2026 Effective rents for first-generation trophy space are now up more than 20% compared with the third quarter of 2025. — Diana Olick, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026 Rulings in two appeals courts defined a consumer, under this law, as anybody who purchases, rents or subscribes to any good or service from a videotape service provider. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

Verb

The National Trust rents out a charming stone cottage called 89 Church Lawn that sleeps seven and sits at the entrance to the 2,650-acre estate. — Nicholas Derenzo, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 His employer rents out the robots for events such as OpenAI’s conference. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 Dan Pfoltzer, a 75-year-old school bus driver who rents a small home in Nassau, New York, has been warily watching oil heat prices for months. — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026 According to Page Six, Earle rents a luxury two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles. — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026 Equinix, by contrast, rents out space in its facilities to customers of all shapes and sizes that can run servers on a variety of compute platforms, from Nvidia to AMD. — Isabel O'Brien,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 The state now rents those beds to ICE for $291 per detainee per day. — Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026 For example, letting a distant family member stay at a second home without formal documentation, or if someone owns one or more properties and rents them out, but the tenants don’t have documentation that the unit is their primary residence. — Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026 Modern Apothecary now rents that space to local vendors or community members to host arts and crafts classes, botanical classes, poetry nights and other things. — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2026

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Noun

For the Paris premiere of The Odyssey on July 8, Zendaya wore the same lace jacket over a sheer skirt with dramatic slits on the sides.

— Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2026
Plus, the side slits are practically made for showing off a pair of tall boots this fall.

— Brittany VanDerBill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of slits

Noun

The double-slit experiment, for example, is a classic setup where scientists send particles through two gaps in a screen and observe a resulting interference pattern, proving that the particles act as waves.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Kyiv has since also reported gaps in intelligence sharing and restrictions on Elon Musk’s Starlink service, which is crucial for its drone missions, battlefield communications and air defense.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of gaps

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The company manages and leases 25 million square feet of space, ranging from large urban mixed-use destinations to lifestyle, community and open-air centers, either built from the ground up or purchased.

— David Moin, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
The company leases office space, including in Hollywood and Culver City, which eventually could be phased out.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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One of us would be chosen to recite the poem onstage—a kitsch performance, no doubt, so that an auditorium of adults would be moved to tears.

— Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
The first days of testimony brought tears from witnesses, spectators and jurors, the 9th Street Journal reported.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of tears

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Chacarra was 4 under for his round after 11 holes, having started out in the halfway lead after completing a second-round 67 early Saturday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Using wooden planks and sandbags, Long Beach City work crews earlier this month had patched up holes in the boardwalk’s wall created by the hurricanes, but the reinforcements did not hold.

— Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of holes

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Osteoporotic fractures are responsible for more hospitalizations than heart attacks, strokes, and breast cancer combined, at $400,000 per hip fracture patient per year in care costs.

— Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Upon arriving at the hospital, doctors determined that the colorful bird — belonging to the same family as crows and jays — had left quite a bit of damage, including multiple fractures in Montalva's left cheekbone and a rare fracture of the hyoid bone in her neck.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025

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