There are two different verbs with similar meaning in Spanish but not in English:- To rent: (from wordreference.com): that means that if I am the owner of a flat I can let you living there if you pay me an amount of money monthly. (alquilar) So you can rent a flat, an apartment...
- To hire: (from wordreference.com): means that you are paing to have the posibility to use a machine or a person. For example: If you go to London, you can hire a car to make some trips. If I have a farm, in harvest time I can hire a person to help me just during the harvest.
The problem is that in Spanish we use alquilar for both verbs, but I think that to hire is a shortter period of time.
