单词 | rente |
释义 | renten. Chiefly in France: government stock; the interest or income accruing from such stock. Cf. rent n.1 3b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock stock1697 rente1825 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > return from capital or investment > interest interest1545 advantage1600 use-money1605 rente1825 1825 R. C. F. Meade Let. 6 Feb. in S. Freitag & P. Wende Brit. Envoys Germany (2000) I. 208 It is in contemplation to covert the ruinous mortgages on land into publick ‘rentes’, and to found a sinking fund for paying them off. 1850 Harper's Mag. Dec. 127/2 The object of the conspiracy is to arrive..at the extermination of all those who possess a foot of land, or a coupon of rente. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 185 Lying stretched on straw, The produce of your miserable rente! 1920 J. Galsworthy In Chancery iii. ix. 283 She had, he knew, but one ambition—to live on her ‘rentes’ in Paris. 1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness v. 116 There were substantial dividends from capital invested in French rentes. 1992 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 52 17 Later in 1793 the government consolidated most of its debt..into a single 5 percent rente, analogous to the British consolidation into three percents in 1751. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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