cost vs rental

cost

noun
  • Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used. 

  • Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic. 

  • A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur. 

  • A cottise. 

verb
  • To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. 

  • To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. 

  • To calculate or estimate a price. 

  • To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. 

rental

noun
  • The payment made to rent something. 

  • An act of renting. 

  • A business that rents out something to its customers. 

  • Something that is rented. 

  • A player traded to a team with a year or less on his contract 

adj
  • Relating to renting. 

  • Relating to rent. 

How often have the words cost and rental occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )