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单词 rent-gatherer
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rent-gatherern.

Brit. /ˈrɛntˌɡað(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈrɛntˌɡæðərər/
Forms: see rent n.1 and gatherer n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rent n.1, gatherer n.
Etymology: < rent n.1 + gatherer n.Earliest attested as a surname.
A person who collects rents for or on behalf of another; a rent-collector.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > rent-collector
rent-gatherer1332
kaner1590
taker-upa1649
rent-collector1821
1332 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 141 (MED) Ric. Rentgaderer.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 72 Þe rentegaderere [L. villicus] was defamed to his lord þat he hadde wastid his good & catell.
1434–6 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 237 Paid to the rentegaderer For ij yeer laboryng a bouten..gaderyng of the seide Rente.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 25 (MED) They myht haue bettyr knowlyge of her munymentys, and more clerely yeue informacyon to her seruauntys, rent gedurarys, and receyuowrs.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xii. 18 Whan kynge Roboam sent thither Adoram the rentgatherer, all Israel stoned him to death.
1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 135 The Bishop of Winchesters Rent-gatherer, and Steward of his Courts.
1797 Brit. Critic 10 52 She was to receive certain sums from the farmers and rent-gatherers.
1867 Galaxy Aug. 413 We are reforming it, not so much out of love for green fields and babbling brooks as out of fear of the tax and rent-gatherers.
1917 Eng. Hist. Rev. 32 435 The accounts are kept in two parts; the first by the master and wardens, the second by the rent-gatherers..the rent-gatherers' part is the old temporal account of the income from the Company's property.
1999 J. C. Roy Vanished Kingdom 217 The historic role of Jews as moneylenders, estate agents, rent gatherers, and so on.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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rent-gatherer
b. esp. A collector of money, often with defining word as rent-gatherer, tax-gatherer, toll-gatherer (now commonly -collector).
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a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 413 Rasers of the fals tax And gederars of greyn wax.
1521 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 318 They that were the gaderers of this trybute came to saynt Peter.
1572 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 342 To appoynt two gatherers..for the same money.
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