rendition

From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ren‧di‧tion

rendition (countable and uncountable, plural renditions)

1. An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011 April 12, Paul Lester, The Guardian:

     The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts.

   • 2017 June 25, “Vaccines”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

     Yes. That is Rob Schneider performing an impromptu rendition of his famous character: the annoying guy who is wrong.

2. A given visual reproduction of something. [from 20th c.]
3. Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work. [from 17th c.]
4. (law, chiefly US) Formal deliverance of a verdict. [from 18th c.]
5. (law, chiefly US) The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011 March 30, Ian Cobain, The Guardian:

     Since then, according to his lawyers and relatives, he has been repeatedly beaten, threatened with a firearm and with further rendition to Guantánamo by Ugandan officials, before being questioned by American officials.

6. (now rare) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.). [from 17th c.]
7. (now rare) The handing over of a person or thing. [from 17th c.]

• extraordinary rendition

• loan rendition

• render

• extradition

rendition (third-person singular simple present renditions, present participle renditioning, simple past and past participle renditioned)

1. (transitive) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.
   • 2007, Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America‎, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 60:

     Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.

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