What's the difference between flatmate and rental?

Flatmate


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) Just five weeks later - following persistent noise complaints from all the neighbours, following a written complaint from the primary school whose playground backs on to the flat, following a police visit to break up a fight between him and his flatmate - he has been evicted.
  • (3) It was, ironically, where I felt most at home – all my friends, my boyfriend, my flatmates, were white.
  • (4) But to afford the rent, she had to find a flatmate.
  • (5) He said at the time that the experience left him feeling as if he had been little more than a flatmate to Sir Nigel in the eyes of the law.
  • (6) The water and gas had been shut off for days when Lessena M and his flatmates, a group of asylum seekers from Ivory Coast who have been living in Naples for more than a year, decided to stage a protest.
  • (7) Broad City adds extra empathy into the mix: Abby and Ilana may be rubbish employees, girlfriends and flatmates, but at least they care about each other, unlike the girls of Girls, all self-centred and only out for themselves.
  • (8) In April, a woman in Northern Ireland who took the pills and was reported to the police by her two flatmates was given a three-month suspended sentence by Belfast crown court.
  • (9) Sloane Crosley, 31, whose first collection of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake , became a New York Times bestseller has also just written her second book, How Did You Get This Number , in which she tackles a dizzying array of subjects from living with an anorexic flatmate to buying stolen upholstery as a means of getting over a heartbreak.
  • (10) I have been living with my flatmate for the past year.
  • (11) A flatmate lounges on a sofa and a coal-effect gas fire pretends to burn in the hearth.
  • (12) They started their own games business and, though one later dropped out, the other flatmate, Steve Jackson, became a lifelong friend and collaborator.
  • (13) "We (me and a flatmate) had to sign a year-long lease and, when 12 months was up, sign up again for another year.
  • (14) It would obviously be hard to do but the positive side I want to bring out is not revenge, it’s trying to prevent these cases from happening in the future.” Katie Watts: ‘I blocked it from my memory’ “When I was training to be a nurse in London, I was raped by one of my flatmates in student halls.
  • (15) It is quite normal, now, to find oneself lumbered with flatmates at the age of 54.
  • (16) Knox has repeatedly said she would like to meet the relatives of her former flatmate in order to explain herself and convince them of her innocence.
  • (17) 5 Don't act ashamed Tinder has already passed the social acceptability test: groups of friends debate faces in the pub, flatmates sit around Tindering together over the weekly group meal.
  • (18) The film shows that Fox's former flatmate, who was also best man at his wedding, met the president of Sri Lanka with Fox for a meeting in a London hotel last year, despite having no role in government.
  • (19) A suspended sentence for safe, self-induced abortion, where a woman’s privacy was so invaded by the police and by the state (not to mention her judgmental flatmates who dobbed her in) is an international disgrace.
  • (20) Berhe’s sister and flatmate, Seghen, claimed she had no idea where he was until he suddenly appeared handcuffed to Italian police officers in Rome on Wednesday.

Rental


Definition:

  • (n.) A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll.
  • (n.) A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
  • (2) Two years later, the privately held Lovefilm acquired Amazon's UK and German movie rental business, with the online retail giant taking a stake in the business as part of the deal.
  • (3) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
  • (4) If it passes, the measure will enforce new limits on the number of days short term rental properties can be offered yearly and require the companies to report the rates charged and durations of stays.
  • (5) Soaring demand for rental property means homes are being let in record time, even though more properties are coming on to the market, according to research from lettings agent Countrywide.
  • (6) Toyota immediately suspended the rental car commercials in which he appears and industry experts speculated the band was likely to lose more lucrative contracts.
  • (7) BHS shareholders led by Green, and the billionaire’s family, withdrew more than £580m in dividends , rental payments and interest on loans from the failed department store chain before he sold it for £1 in March 2015.
  • (8) LoveFilm, bought out by Amazon three years ago in a deal worth nearly £200m , will be folded into the online retailer's British website next week, creating a one-stop service for digital streaming, DVD rental and books.
  • (9) Lack of construction to meet an increase in demand for both rental and for purchase has contributed to increase in cost of housing in the US.
  • (10) Photograph: ONS That covers banks, insurers, technology companies, other financial firms, estate agents, and goods rental companies.
  • (11) Roger Harding, Shelter’s director of communications, policy and campaigns, said: “It beggars belief that a landlord can evict a family simply because they have three children, and the fact that this one has is yet another sign of our broken rental market.
  • (12) The Apple boss opened up several new fronts at the start of the year, with plans to launch online movie rentals and a revamped "Apple TV" on which to play them, trying to do for broadband-based video on demand what iTunes did for music downloads.
  • (13) Le Grand Bornand is one of the first resorts to offer Snooc rental.
  • (14) But PricedOut said proposals to expand the private rented sector came with a "massive omission" over security for tenants, mostly on six-month or one-year contracts, and failed to tackle tax breaks that give rental investors a head start over first-time buyers.
  • (15) On top of that you will also face a line rental charge of £15.45.
  • (16) She will recommend better regulation of the rental sector as part of the report.
  • (17) Daily cost including drug, pharmacy and nursing time, pump rental was 33%, PA, versus 23%, PB, more than conventional therapy.
  • (18) While the proportions may vary year to year, we invariably spend more on residences than we receive in rental income.
  • (19) Rental arrears are up among social tenants as a result of the bedroom tax and other benefit cuts, with 28% of them going into the red for the first time .
  • (20) A rental contract can stipulate that tenants ask a landlord before switching energy supplier, but it can't refuse permission to switch.

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