"Car rental" and "rent a car"

[fleaking]

Hi there,

can anyone please tell me what is the differences between terms car rental and rent a car?

I.E
which one is more often used when speaking, writing and advertising in daily life?

is "rent a car" more often used in europe than in america?

I recently received an offer for my rentacar-related domain name,
if it were "carrental", I am sure it could worth a lot....

please tell me as many as you know the differences between these two terms!
I will send some NPs as reward to any good answer.

thanks in advance!

 

[dgridley]

There's a huge difference in Google results for one.. "car rental" has the most results by far (78 m vs 22 m) vs "rent a car".

I view them as basically the same tho "car rental" sounds a bit more formal and business-like to me.

Hi there,

can anyone please tell me what is the differences between terms car rental and rent a car?

I.E
which one is more often used when speaking, writing and advertising in daily life?

is "rent a car" more often used in europe than in america?

I recently received an offer for my rentacar-related domain name,
if it were "carrental", I am sure it could worth a lot....

please tell me as many as you know the differences between these two terms!
I will send some NPs as reward to any good answer.

thanks in advance!

 

[gazzip]

Rent a Car sounds more like a "Brandable" type domain whereas Car Rentals is more generic, the term "car Hire" is also used but probably more so in europe.

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[Dannoth]

car rental IMO sounds more business like.

 

[verbster]

It may not help you, but when I read your question, my immediate answer was that they are different parts of speech: one's a thing (noun-based) and one's an action (verb-based). So, although very different in this way, to answer your question, I'd say both are very valuable, buy two words are better than three.

 

[fleaking]

thanks, I appreciate you all!

 

[gazzip]

thanks, I appreciate you all!

Thanks for the NP's fleaking - I tried to send you a PM but its not working right now - database error coming up ??


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[verbster]

same thing...Thanks.

 

[fleaking]

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