rentaln.
/ˈrɛntl/, U.S. /ˈrɛn(t)l/ 1. † b. An income arising from rents received. Obsolete.
a. A list or register of the rents due to be paid by tenants to a landlord; a rent roll. Also figurative. Now historical.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > methodical or catalogue > specific
rentalc1400
rental roll1433
rent roll1517
checklist1853
résumé1938
thesaurus1957
c.v.1971
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > list of rents
rentalc1400
rental roll1433
rent roll1517
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. vii. 82 To haue reles & remissioun on þat rental I leue.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 41 Ȝif a styward fynde in þe old court-rollys & rentallys..þat þou art behynde of þi rente to þi lord.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 12 What rentes..the lorde ought to haue of his tenauntes can nat be knowen but by the..court rolles, rentayles [etc.].
1584 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 698 Bringand with thame..ane just and trew inventour and rentall of the convent.
1628 in G. Goudie Celtic & Scand. Antiq. Shetland (1904) 179 The rentall of the lawting oxen and sheep..gevin up to..[the] Chamerlane in anno 1615; the rentall of the peattis yeirlie to be casten won and led to the castell of Scalloway.
1669 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 133 The Rentall of Cauldwell as it payit presentlie this yere 1669.
1709 London Gaz. No. 4520/3 The two several Demesnes..to be Sold, and a Rental or Proposals thereof is to be had at Mr. Thomas Norton's.
1722 in W. Fraser Earls of Cromartie (1876) II. 175 Be sure you bring up with you a full and compleat rentall of all your estate.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 239 I have heard of a thing they call Doomsday-book—I am clear it has been a rental of back-ganging tenants.
1912 R. H. Tawney Agrarian Probl. in 16th Cent. i. iv. 142 In the rental drawn up by the steward in 1287 we find the rents and services paid for the customary holdings and the rents paid for the encroachments set down side by side.
1996 R. Evans in Z. Ravi & R. M. Smith Medieval Soc. & Manor Court vii. 216 According to the rental of Thorncroft of 1333 William le Lepere held only a rood of free land.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > income derived from land or property
purchase1516
rentalc1535
land-revenue1689
land-rent1706
c1535 Ploughman's Tale i. sig. B.ii Her seruauntes be to them vnholde But they can doublyn their rentall To bygge hem castels.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 85 Sa greit riches he spent, Quhilk thrise ouircome his Rentall and his rent.
1793 F. Reynolds How to grow Rich iii. ii. 41 This, my dear girl, will double my rentall, and this is my way of growing rich!
1801 Lusignan II. 154 Emily's vast rental offered a mark to his ambition.
1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. vii. 239 Prior, in 1730, calculated the rental spent by absentees in England at about 620,000l.
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a. An amount paid or received as rent. In early use chiefly Scottish.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun]
gavela1121
rentc1300
rental1441
gavelagec1450
rentage1633
mail duty1638
galea1687
wayleave1729
1441 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 7 That..thair be..chosin twa men..the quhilkis sall raise all the rentaile of the toune.
?a1461 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 54 (MED) And yn rental yn Gooldes tyme..there was none payd.
1525 in J. Bain & C. Rogers Glasgow Rental Bk. (1875) I. 55 Alan Jonston..sall cum incontinent with the money efferande..and content ȝour M. by the rentell.
1565 in J. S. Clouston Rec. Earldom of Orkney (1914) 371 The said William hes gevin doun off the rentaill this yeir because the coirnis is euil.
1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 42 If any Minister sett his gleib or manse, or any part of the fruits thereof, with diminution of the rentall, that all such tacks be declared null.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. viii. 300 The rental of the kingdom was supposed to be so exceeding low, that one subsidy of this sort did not..amount to more than 70,000l.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. iii. iii. 281 Lord Everingham..frightened him with visions of rates exceeding rentals.
1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) p. vii The Charge for Private Lines is at a fixed annual rental, payable in advance, varying with the situation and the distance apart of the points connected.
1952 J. L. Waten Alien Son 133 Our landlord..readily let the disused building to the aboriginal family for a small rental.
1989 Money Managem. Feb. 63/1 When tenant demand outstrips supply, rentals shoot up, attracting new developers.
b. Chiefly North American. Something (as a property, business premises, car, etc.) that is let out for rent.
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society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [noun] > rentable article
rental1950
renter1979
society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun] > article, vehicle, or property let out
rental1950
1950 Los Angeles Times 25 Nov. 4/3 We were in the refrigeration service business..and we worked on refrigerators in rentals where the landlords could hardly pay their bill.
1952 Sat. Evening Post 22 Nov. 25 Sometimes a mob of hoodlums in a rental forced off the road by pursuing police would get tangled up in their own arsenal.
1970 N.Y. Mag. 16 Nov. 42/3 They began breaking up the mills and foundries into rentals for small~time manufacturers.
1981 Nordic Skiing Jan. 47/1 The ski shop carries complete rentals in all sizes and reservations on rental equipment are accepted.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Mar. (Business section) 20/5 The so-called shadow market of unsold homes becoming rentals.
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society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [noun] > taking on rent or lease > lease > types of land lease
year-tack1532
rental1541
running1696
improving leasea1723
improvement lease1825
pastoral lease1850
lend-lease1941
lease-back1947
1541 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1921) II. 686/2 The gift of..the..landis of the Coychenoche, haldin of the abbay of Paslay..and takis, rycht and kyndnes of the rentale thairof, quhilk pertenit to umquhile Johne Houstoun.
1565–6 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 428 Obtenit ane new tak and rentall thairof.
1580–1 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 351 They have..had thair rentalis thairof..for ane certane sowme of entrie.
1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1937) I. 232 That kyndnes founded upon wreitt, for peyment of the old dewty, no tyme being prescryved, should be als sufficient to the tennent as ane rentall for his lyfetyme.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. ix. § 15 A rental is a tack set to kindly tenants, which are the successors of the ancient possessors, or these who are received by the heritor with the like privilege as if they were ancient possessors.
a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. vi. §38 267 Rentals commonly bear a clause, that the rentaller shall neither assign nor subset.
1814 Gen. Rep. Agric. State & Polit. Circumstances Scotl. I. iv. 312 A rental is a life-rent tack by implication, accompanied by some peculiarities as to forfeiture, and determinable upon the death of the rentaller.
4. The fact or process of renting or hiring out property, etc. (rent v.2 2). Frequently for (also on) rental.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun]
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fee-farming1549
renting1552
location1581
loan1601
rental1800
let1839
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1800 Times 18 Mar. 1/4 (advt.) Wanted, on rental, in Walworth or Camberwell, a neat small house.
1890 C. W. Dilke Probl. Greater Brit. ii. i. 116 The experience of the land question in Victoria shows that settlers are slow to occupy land for farming on rental.
1915 Nat. Real Estate Jrnl. Nov. 332/2 The duty of the agent to owners whose property he has in charge for rental, requires him to make untiring effort to promptly secure desirable tenants.
1928 Publishers' Weekly 12 May 1951 The rental of children's books has not so far been well tested out, as only four of the stores replying have collections of children's books.
1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 31 May 11/2 (advt.) The property is on rental.
1991 Canberra Times 31 Jan. 2/2 The club would keep 300 square metres of space on the second floor and also retain the entire ground-floor office area for rental.
Compounds
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a. General attributive. Of or relating to rental; (now frequently) spec. designating rented property.
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1433 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 479/2 The rolles of accounte..and the rentall rolle..been..kepte in the cofre.
c1600 in J. Kirk Bks. Assumption Thirds of Benefices (1995) 1 The rental and annual accounts of the chamberlains and the graniters.
a1760 T. Gifford Hist. Descr. Zetland (1786) vii. 64 The Umboth tythes are for the most part a rental tythe.
1840 Times 25 Jan. 2 The estimated productive rental value of the estates..may be set down by way of general outline at £3,000 per annum.
1888 Agric. of Pennsylvania (Commonw. of Pennsylvania) 351 The impression prevails among owners that a rental farm is an unprofitable farm.
1903 Polit. Sci. Q. Mar. 93 The figures given as rental value often include payments not strictly regardable as rent.
1972 J. Gores Dead Skip xi. 76 The house was a rental, and rental properties meant landladies.
1997 Irish Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. 29 One element was debt-like, entitling the holder to a portion of the rental stream from a property pool.
2008 N.Y. Times Real Estate Mag. Fall 44/1 In rental buildings..better common areas make it easier for landlords to re-lease apartments.
b. † rental feu duty n. Obsolete† rental mail n. Obsolete
rental agency n.
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1884 Daily Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 23 Feb. (advt.) Fire insurance, real estate and rental agency.
1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) xi. 212 I think we should list the house with a good rental agency right now.
rental agent n.
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1880 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 28 Sept. E. B. Kellar, rental agent, committed suicide to-day by morphine.
1986 Jrnl. (Fairfax County, Va.) 23 May c10 (advt.) Alamo Rent-a-Car is expanding... We are hiring: Rental Agents, Bus Drivers and Lot Attendants.
rental book n.
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1511 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 330 The rentall buik of Methvene and Kinclavin.
1647 S. Rutherford Christ Dying 296 The drawne soule hath bread by the covenant of grace, his yearely rent is written in the New Testament, Christ is his rentall booke and heritage.
a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. vi. §37 267 If the proprietor barely inrol a tenant in his rental-book,..the inrolment is sufficient to defend the tenant.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 258 I will bear the co[n]tents to your credit in the rental-book.
1923 Eng. Hist. Rev. 38 158 Manuscripts which should interest the historian..for example, a rental book of the Lleweni estate.
2008 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 May 83 Young families also dominate the rental books, with schools including St Bede's College, Mentone Girls' Grammar and Kilbreda College.
rental car n.
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1910 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 2 Sept. 12/6 (advt.) Five-passenger Pope-Hartford touring car... This car would make a good rental car.
1962 Time 7 Dec. 84/3 Cut-rate rental cars are generally as clean and well-serviced as the big three.
1995 Daily Mail Holiday Action Summer 44/2 A rental car is vital if you want to explore, as public transport around the Cape Province is minimal.
rental duty n.
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1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 13 Nov. (1855) 95 The heritor to pey the tenth and twentieth penny for his rentall dewtie.
a1713 J. Stewart Dirleton's Doubts (1715) 193 Beside the Rental-Duty, there should be every Five Years a considerable Sum payed.
1966 Americas 22 381 The Church's authorized earnings from the 9.5% rental duty were no longer forthcoming.
2008 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 9 Mar. g5 More owners who would have flipped homes rely on them longer for rental duty.
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1591 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. IV. 629 The auld rentaill few dewitie.
rental house n.
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1907 Times 2 Aug. 14/6 (advt.) £32 p.a. on five £40 rental Houses.
1998 Indianapolis Star 25 Jan. h1/4 Owners of apartments, rental houses, stores, warehouses, offices, farms and vacant land held for investment can defer tax by trading for other ‘like kind’ property of equal or greater cost.
rental income n.
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1757 M. Postlethwayt Britain's Commerc. Interest 98 A precarious rental income.
1895 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 58 335 The whole of the net rental income of say 53,000l. per annum.
1986 Rev. Afr. Polit. Econ. No. 35. 2 The ‘struggle for spoils’ was accelerated by the vast ‘rental income’ derived from oil revenues.
2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 19 June 70/1 The manager maintains or improves the building, negotiates leases and distributes rental income.
rental land n.
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1741 Ld. Kames Decisions Court of Session 1 484 A rental found null in totum by way of exception, the rentaller having assign'd more than half of the rental lands without the master's consent.
1821 Ld. Byron Let. 26 Feb. (1978) VIII. 87 Could we not purchase—or find a English mortgage?..As I want..nothing but rental land—what think you?
1991 J. Fitchen Endangered Spaces i. ii. 18 When the operation is shorn of its rental lands, they will have to scale down the herd below the size needed to support four or even two nuclear families.
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1788 J. Scott Anal. Valuation-bks. of County of Roxburgh 97 Rental Maills and Teinds of Craigsfurd.
1791 Decisions Court of Session 1778–81 ii. 116 Under the title of feu and rental mails, are specified about thirty different persons, paying in all L. 45 Scots of money duties.
1820 W. Scott Monastery III. viii. 204 Settling the rental-mails, and feu-duties.
rental right n.
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1741 Ld. Kames Decisions Court of Session 1 sig. (h)v Legal irritancy upon assigning or subsetting a rental-right.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 566 The right was not effectual against singular successors, unless the rentaller could show a rental right.
1898 Encycl. Law Scotl. XII. 238 It has also been held that a rental right may be pledged by writ with delivery of earth and stone on the lands.
1999 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 48 714 Rental is a different form of exploitation from distribution, and the rental right remains one of the prerogatives of the author and producer notwithstanding sale of the physical recording.
rental roll n. now historical
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > methodical or catalogue > specific
rentalc1400
rental roll1433
rent roll1517
checklist1853
résumé1938
thesaurus1957
c.v.1971
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > list of rents
rentalc1400
rental roll1433
rent roll1517
1433Rentall rolle [see Compounds 1a].
1540 in R. K. Hannay Acts Lords of Council Public Affairs (1932) 493 In the rentale suit roll.
1826 J. Wainwright Yorkshire 198 In a rental roll in the time of Elizabeth, the towns and villages doing homage here, correspond in number and name with those of a like document, dated A.D., 1733.
2000 J. Boffey in D. Pearsall New Direct. Later Medieval Manuscript Stud. iv. 51 The love lyric with an O-and-I refrain, preserved locally on a fourteenth-century rental roll.
C2. † rental boll n. Scottish Obsolete a boll of grain paid as rent in kind.
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1627 in A. Peterkin Rentals Earldom & Bishoprick of Orkney (1820) iii. 76 His majesties chamerlanes resaiffes the haill dewtees and rentell bowis off Firthe and Stennes.
a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. x. §25 Sometimes the titular..accepted of a stated quantity of corns yearly, commonly called rental bolls.
1834 Sc. Jurist 6 425/2 I am not prepared to say that we have evidence..of the rental bolls paid at the date of the sub-valuation.
rental library n. chiefly U.S. a library at which a charge is made for the loan of books.
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society > communication > book > library or collection of books > library, place, or institution > [noun] > private commercial
book club1740
library1836
rental library1923
twopenny library1935
1923 Chicago Tribune 17 May 8/7 Now there are a number of rental libraries in the city for those who can afford them, but the Chicago public library should be a free one.
1934 G. Conklin How to run Rental Library i. 11 The rental library..is strictly limited to that type of book-renting business which is organized for the purpose of profit.
1946 R. Chandler Let. 9 Jan. (1966) 136 The publishers have co-operated in the rental library swindle over a period of years.
2008 Oroville (Calif.) Mercury Reg. (Nexis) 7 June We have a very comprehensive Metaphysical Book Store and rental library.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
rentalv.
/ˈrɛntl/, U.S. /ˈrɛn(t)l/ 1. transitive (chiefly in passive). Scottish. To put in or admit (a person) as a ‘kindly’ tenant (kindly adj. 2). Now historical.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > have tenure of or hold as tenant [verb (transitive)] > hold of or from another > on lease or rental > admit as kindly tenant
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1492 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 234/2 Becauss baith..partiis clamis to be rentalit of þe said akeris & to haf tak þarof.
1565–6 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 429 Elizabeth allegeit that..scho had broukit the saidis landis, and bene continewalie rentalit thairin fra tyme to time.
1583 Edinb. Test. XII. f. 200v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Rental(e Quhilkis landis I haif of the kingis maiestie and ordinis the said Johne to be rentalit thairin as I am.
1979 I. Whyte Agric. & Soc. 17th Cent. Scotl. ii. 30 In Scotland such people held their land by lease, either for life or for a specific number of years, or by being ‘rentalled’, or enrolled, in the proprietor's rental book.
2. transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To let out or hold (land) on a rental. Also: to fix (a rent or value) at a certain level. Now rare.
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society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > hire [verb (transitive)] > rent
to take upc1400
mail1425
farm1435
rent1530
rental1640
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > have tenure of or hold as tenant [verb (transitive)] > hold of or from another > on lease or rental
rental1818
lease1877
1518 in G. MacGregor Hist. Glasgow (1881) ix. 73 Wat Stuart rentallit in ane mark land off Gwuan.
1627 Rep. Parishes Scotl. (1835) 205 The teind thairof is rentallit to tuentie bollis.
1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 13 Nov. (1855) 95 It is appoyntit..that the full worthe of the land be valued as gif the samen were not rentalled.
1693 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1759) I. 571 Whether that superiority should be included in the sale or not, and if it was formerly rentalled, and if the debtor was in possession of it.
1793 P. Barclay in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 580 Some farms, which are rentalled for 6 merks, are of more extent, and worth more rent, than others that are rentalled for 10 or 12 merks.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 441 Some honest..individual, who rentalled of the Prelate of Glasgow the pendicle of ‘Daldue Wester’.
1834 Sc. Jurist 6 425/1 The teinds of the lands in question, and of various other parcels mentioned, had been rentalled, or fixed to a certain number of bolls of grain.
1908 Times 15 May 5/6 All rents and dues are properly rentalled.
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