rent
v.— «We’ve also been seeing an increase in the “renting” of consumer electronics. In the last five years, there has been an uptick in high-end digital video cameras, for example. You don’t think of people “renting” cameras, but people do exactly that for graduations, weddings, special events. We see a lot of that being taken advantage of.» —“An Eagle Eye on Retail Scams” BusinessWeek Aug. 5, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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