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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lease, rental, lettingnoun

    property that is leased or rented out or let

Wiktionary

  1. lettingnoun

    The rental of an apartment

  2. lettingnoun

    The award of a public contract

Wikipedia

  1. letting

    Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another. A gross lease is when the tenant pays a flat rental amount and the landlord pays for all property charges regularly incurred by the ownership. An example of renting is equipment rental. Renting can be an example of the sharing economy.

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  1. letting

    Letting refers to the act of allowing or permitting someone to do something, or giving permission for something to happen or occur. It involves granting someone the authority, freedom, or opportunity to engage in a specific action or behavior. Letting can also involve releasing control or relinquishing ownership of something to another person.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Letting

    of Let

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Letting

    let′ing, n. the act of granting to a tenant: the act of giving to a contractor.

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Letting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4379

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Letting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3037

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Letting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Letting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Letting in a Sentence

  1. Lao Tzu:

    While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

  2. Fredrick Brennan:

    It was getting so difficult to try to control. It's like letting the mental patients run the asylum, i was having too much mental stress dealing with it.

  3. Tamie Acosta:

    Everybody is starting to feel more comfortable with the vaccines, everybody is starting to learn how to handle what’s going on with COVID and they're ready to just get out and start letting the kids be kids again.

  4. Alexandra Rojas:

    I think( Trump's effort) backfired and united anti-fascist, socialists( and others) to do everything we could to elect Joe Biden, because it's not about an individual, this is about, as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez says, letting democracy live another day.

  5. Chris Rogers:

    We can't protect our own homes at our cost -- the council doesn't want to do anything, we've got no trust in them. It's pretty hard to trust someone when for over a decade they've been letting people down.

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