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Old Jun 15th, 2009, 09:46 pm
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Default Re: Hire vs Rent

Okay, this is a continuation if someone can give me a hand.

I need to write several pieces on renting, for example a "cherry picker"

so the forms in english I would be concerned with are:
"Cherry picker rentals available"
"You can get a Cherry picker rental"
"Do you need to rent a cherry picker?"
"Have you been thinking of renting a cherry picker?"

I get "rent" = "hire"

But what about the other forms of the word? If there are any.

It seems it would be:
"Cherry picker hires available"
"You can get a Cherry picker hire"
"Do you need to hire a cherry picker?"
"Have you been thinking of hiring a cherry picker?"

The second one especially sounds odd to my American ears. And the UK dictionaries have been absolutely no help for this for whatever reason.

Thank you ahead of time,
clamdobber@gmail.com
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