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rent

B1Frequent NGSL-2
UK /rent/US /rent/
noun

an amount of money that you regularly pay so that you can use a house, room, etc.

verb

to regularly pay money to somebody so that you can use something that they own, such as a house, a room, some land, etc.

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We became friends, formed a club and soon rented an apartment in the Akihabara District of Tokyo, where we began designing our own games.

Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer

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I had huge student debts, so I couldn't afford a place to stay and an office—so I rented an office instead because that was cheaper than getting a place to stay.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders LectureSentence 380 · Pro

I think we will have a more robust cloud computing business and we will be able to have customers that want to rent computing power from us.

Joe Tsai Co-founder & Chair of AlibabaSentence 212 · Pro

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