renter

• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

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From rent +‎ -er.

renter (plural renters)

1. One who rents property or other goods from another.

   Synonyms: lessee, tenant, rentee

   • 1999, Donna M. Matherly, Michele Reader, Microsoft Office 97 Professional Essentials:

     Create an input form that enables you to enter the data for new videos without seeing the information on whether the video is rented. Save this form with the name New video. Then create a form for entering the name of a renter […]

2. (law) One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.

   Synonyms: lessor, landlord, (rare) rentor

3. (UK, slang) (Synonym of rent boy) Male prostitute.
   • 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 205:

     It was Sweet Alice who introduced me to the various renter types, and explained to me their costumes, and their habits, and their skills.

4. (informal) A film worth renting, but not possibly worth visiting a cinema to see.

Technically, in common legal usage, the term should refer only to the party who owns the property and allows another to rent it. The party paying for the use of the property is properly termed a rentee. However, common usage is to use the term to refer to the party paying for use of the property, and this usage has seeped into legal parlance as well.

From French rentraire; Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + in (“into, in”) + trahere (“to draw”).

renter (third-person singular simple present renters, present participle rentering, simple past and past participle rentered)

1. To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
2. To restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.

• rerent

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.te/

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renter

1. to endow

• “renter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• entrer, errent, rentre, rentré

renter m or f

1. indefinite plural of rente

renter f

1. indefinite plural of rente