On consulting my dictorary [1] I conclude Lease -> a contract whereby property is conveyed for a period of time in exchange for rent. Rent -> income or revenue from property Hire -> pay for temporary use of something
of course nouns become verbs etc
[ 1. the SOED 3rd edition I bought in 1973, which I consider more trustworthy than the 5th edition I aquired this century]
Unless you use a rent boy or get hire purchase on what was called the never never.
Leave it there. Some tanks from the fifties are asbestos based.
Car rental tends to be short term.
MBQ
Shame on you!
And a lot of car hire companies have at the least links with USA companies. Which might explain the number of uses of "rent" in this arena. But still there are towards three times as many hits for "car hire" as for "car rental" in the UK. (Very approximate - simplistic Google search.)
Reciprocating saw. See:
km
Me neither.
But once upon a time I came across some damn great sheets of galvanised iron in a loft that had obviously been cut up with a gas axe. And that was in a Lutyens mansion. I guess they could afford a man on watch for a couple of days afterwards!
Andy
I would back that one up - my father set his workshop on fire grinding with an angle grinder in it and he didn't survive.
Hire a powerstroke saw for the day, but at the hire cost you'd be as well buying one from Aldidl anyway.
You could have rented a gozunda.
Thanks for all the advice, I decided to try km's solution. I now have the saw, only need to get up to my daughters to see if it works OK. I will post here to report how it went, after all others may be looking to resolve a similar problem.
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