"car rental" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: car rentals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} car rental (countable and uncountable, plural car rentals)
  1. (US) The hiring of automobiles (motor cars) for relatively short periods. Tags: US, countable, uncountable Synonyms: car hire [British] Related terms: rental car, leasing Translations (hiring of cars for short periods): تَأْجِير سَيَّارَات (taʔjīr sayyārāt) [masculine] (Arabic), 汽車租賃 (Chinese Mandarin), 汽车租赁 (qìchē zūlìn) (Chinese Mandarin), 租車 (Chinese Mandarin), 租车 (zūchē) (Chinese Mandarin), biludlejning [common-gender] (Danish), autoverhuur [common-gender] (Dutch), autonvuokraus (Finnish), location de voiture [feminine] (French), Autovermietung [feminine] (German), autonoleggio [masculine] (Italian), レンタカー (rentakā) (Japanese), 렌터카 (renteoka) (Korean), изнајмување автомоби́л (iznajmuvanje avtomobíl) [neuter] (Macedonian), locação de veículos [feminine] (Portuguese), locação de carros [feminine] (Portuguese), прока́т автомоби́лей (prokát avtomobílej) [masculine] (Russian), alquiler de vehículos (Spanish), biluthyrning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-car_rental-en-noun-LHn96un2 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'hiring of cars for short periods': 70 30
  2. A business that hires out automobiles. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (business): autovuokraamo (Finnish), locadora de veículos/carros [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-car_rental-en-noun-P-QGFnBz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'business': 0 100

Inflected forms

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