rent
noun
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
Example Sentences
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A Realtor for this building allowed me to use unrentable space pro bono for a few years, including an elevator shaft that had been paved over and a closet.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
The first U.A.L., which opened in Hattiesburg in 1980, was in an unrentable building 10 feet from the railroad tracks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
The change has cost the mall’s sports store C$50,000 a year and has made some units unrentable.
From Economist ● Nov. 6, 2014
Even the U.S.S.R. puts up more housing than the U.S., though the Soviets' prefabricated apartments are so cramped and shoddy that most would be unrentable to middle-class Americans.
From Time Magazine Archive
One whole side of our motel was without electricity, and therefore unrentable, for two days and two nights, until the understaffed electrical department could send some men out.
From Four and Twenty Beds by Nancy Vogel
