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Renting a House
10th form
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| a real estate agent | person who is in the business of finding sellers and buyers for houses and apartments or landlords and tenants |
| a landlord (a landlady) | a person who owns a house, flat, or room that people can rent |
| a tenant | someone who rents a flat, house, office, piece of land etc from the person who owns it |
| to share | to use or to have something at the same time as someone else |
| search for | an attempt to find an answer or information |
| to inspect | to look at something carefully in order to check that it is correct or good enough |
| frustrating | making you feel annoyed and impatient because you are prevented from achieving something |
| rude | not polite, offensive |
| ill-tempered | rude, impatient or easily made angry |
| to meet the criteria | to satisfy a standard that is used for judging something |
| belongings | the things you own |
| stuff | variety of things |
| to wrap up | to cover something by putting something such as paper or cloth round it |
| fragile | easy to break or damage |
| to put up with someone / something | to accept someone or something unpleasant in a patient way |
| to put up a notice | to fix a notice onto a wall or on the Internet or in other media |