1 (also rent especially in AmE) [U,C,usually sing.] the amount of money that you pay to use sth for a particular period of time:
Telephone charges include line rental.
2 [U] the act of renting sth or an arrangement to rent sth:
the world's largest car rental company * video rental * (especially AmE) a rental car * a minimum rental period of three months
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3 [C] (especially AmE) a house, car, or piece of equipment that you can rent:
'Is this your own car?' 'No, it's a rental.'
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for rental is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rental a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rental is tagged as noun.
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