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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. Vice President Biden:

    I believe that we were not letting an awful lot of people — high school-educated, mostly Caucasian, but also people of color — know that we understood their problems.

  2. Oliver Nugent:

    Seeing those stock cancellations reverse is a sign that the pull from China (for metal) seems to be letting up, we're hearing that primary smelters (in China) are increasing utilisation rates and tightness in China is being relieved by whatever slack there is outside in the regional market.

  3. Reince Priebus:

    While Democrats are letting party insiders write their platform behind closed doors, Platform.gop is proof of our Party’s philosophy of listening to the voice of the people and honoring the democratic process.

  4. Bob Barnes:

    There were three times in Kentucky where people took care of me, as far as letting me stay, it was cool.

  5. Alex Ortega:

    We come from countries where we think elections are corrupt. Some people don't want to participate because they think their vote doesn't matter, we're letting them know it's not the same. They shouldn't let past experiences stop them.

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