单词 | rentier |
释义 | rentiern. A person who derives his or her income from property or investment. Cf. rente n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > investor > type of pernora1325 rentier1650 fundholder1765 rentière1837 odd-lotter1903 self-liquidator1932 short-termist1987 1650 Briefe Relation Some Affaires No. 31. 423 The Rentiers are still discontented in Paris, and the Marchants doe more then ever complaine of the small accompt made of them in this Kingdome. 1798 F. A. Winsor Addr. Sovereigns of Europe II. 41 After having ruined all their Rentiers, and Foreign State creditors..the Ruling depots of the grand and generous Nation..thought it necessary in Octr. 1797 solemnly to declare the Grand Republic insolvent! 1836 Amer. Q. Rev. 19 144 A French rentier is not among the hottest of revolutionists. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 100 Persons without specified occupations..returned by property, rank, &c... Rentier. 1921 R. H. Tawney Acquisitive Society v. 68 If it [sc. a society] is to..avoid the creation of a class of rentier, it must not use for current consumption the whole of the wealth annually produced. 1948 A. Huxley Let. 25 Jan. (1969) 579 Maria's uncle..is a rentier, living on an unelastic income. 2005 C. de Waal Albania Today iii. 29 The Albanian rentier's concept of landlord–tenant relations was quite un-western. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1858 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 296/1 The poor of Dublin have been left to the tender mercies of the rentier class in the Liberties. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Sept. 717/3 The elimination of the idle rentier class. 1954 M. Beresford Lost Villages Eng. ii. vi. 205 Any ex-demesne land which rentier lords were prepared..to lease. 1996 W. Hutton State we're In (rev. ed.) i. 22 The state has developed a rentier culture that complements ‘gentlemanly capitalism’. 2002 New Internationalist May 20/3 Rentier states cannot survive if they do not find someone to sell oil to. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1650 |
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