alquilar

To rent — an apartment, a car, a movie, or one's own services. Se alquila ("for rent") is one of the most common signs seen on Spanish-speaking streets, and the verb works both ways: alquilo un piso can mean either 'I rent an apartment (as tenant)' or 'I rent out an apartment (as landlord),' with context deciding which.

• Alquilamos un coche para el fin de semana. — We rented a car for the weekend.
• Ese piso se alquila por seiscientos euros al mes. — That apartment rents for six hundred euros a month.
• Decidieron alquilar la casa de la playa este verano. — They decided to rent out the beach house this summer.

Assuming alquilar only means 'to rent from' — because the verb doesn't distinguish tenant from landlord the way English sometimes implies with 'rent' vs. 'rent out,' context alone tells you which side of the transaction is meant.

• film Novia se alquila — The Spanish-language title used for the 1987 American teen comedy Can't Buy Me Love, starring Patrick Dempsey, about a student who pays the school's popular cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend.