rent-a-
Britishprefix
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denoting a rental service
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derogatory denoting a person or group that performs a function as if hired from a rental service
rent-a-mob
Example Sentences
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After the man was gone, Beatrice whispered: “Rent-a- cop.”
From Literature
Dollar Dreams hawks hair brushes and toilet paper next to a Rent-A- Center Inc. store, the largest rent-to-own company in an industry whose payment plans for people with bad credit can inflate prices of laptop computers and washing machines by more than 300 percent, according to a Consumer Reports study.
From BusinessWeek
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