renter

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Etymology 1

rent +‎ -er

Noun

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.
Usage notes

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.

Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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.

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French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃.te/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

renter

  1. to endow

Inflection
Conjugation of renter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple renter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple rentant
/ʁɑ̃.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle renté
/ʁɑ̃.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present rente
/ʁɑ̃t/		 rentes
/ʁɑ̃t/		 rente
/ʁɑ̃t/		 rentons
/ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/		 rentez
/ʁɑ̃.te/		 rentent
/ʁɑ̃t/
imperfect rentais
/ʁɑ̃.tɛ/		 rentais
/ʁɑ̃.tɛ/		 rentait
/ʁɑ̃.tɛ/		 rentions
/ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/		 rentiez
/ʁɑ̃.tje/		 rentaient
/ʁɑ̃.tɛ/
past historic2 rentai
/ʁɑ̃.te/		 rentas
/ʁɑ̃.ta/		 renta
/ʁɑ̃.ta/		 rentâmes
/ʁɑ̃.tam/		 rentâtes
/ʁɑ̃.tat/		 rentèrent
/ʁɑ̃.tɛʁ/
future renterai
/ʁɑ̃.tʁe/		 renteras
/ʁɑ̃.tʁa/		 rentera
/ʁɑ̃.tʁa/		 renterons
/ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/		 renterez
/ʁɑ̃.tʁe/		 renteront
/ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
conditional renterais
/ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 renterais
/ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 renterait
/ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/		 renterions
/ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 renteriez
/ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁje/		 renteraient
/ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present rente
/ʁɑ̃t/		 rentes
/ʁɑ̃t/		 rente
/ʁɑ̃t/		 rentions
/ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/		 rentiez
/ʁɑ̃.tje/		 rentent
/ʁɑ̃t/
imperfect2 rentasse
/ʁɑ̃.tas/		 rentasses
/ʁɑ̃.tas/		 rentât
/ʁɑ̃.ta/		 rentassions
/ʁɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/		 rentassiez
/ʁɑ̃.ta.sje/		 rentassent
/ʁɑ̃.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — rente
/ʁɑ̃t/		 — rentons
/ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/		 rentez
/ʁɑ̃.te/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

renter m or f

  1. indefinite plural of rente

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

renter f

  1. indefinite plural of rente
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