Crossword clues for renter
renter
- Blockbuster patron
- Landlord's supporter
- He's not buying it
- Flat figure
- Tuxedo shop customer, often
- Seasonal resident, often
- Many a summer resident
- Flat figure?
- Tux wearer, often
- Trulia user
- Thrifty customer
- Summer resident, often
- She's not buying it
- One paying a flat rate?
- One may sublet
- Occupant, perhaps
- Landlord's support
- Flat denizen
- First-of-the-month payer
- Apartment inhabitant, usually
- Apartment dweller, typically
- One in a flat
- Flat dweller
- Tenant
- Flat person
- Letter's need
- Thrifty customer?
- One who deals with letters
- Lessee
- Thrifty customer, e.g.
- One in town for the summer, say
- An owner who receives payment for the use of their property by another
- His payment is sometimes controlled
- Lease signer
- Boxholder
- One making regular payments, torn, I hesitate to say
- Tenant or landlord
- Apartment dweller
- One paying a flat fee
- Flat occupant
- One paying a flat fee?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Renter \Ren"ter\ (r?n"t?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rentered (-t?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rentering.] [F. rentraire; L. pref. re- re- + in into, in + trahere to draw.]
To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.
Renter \Rent"er\ (r?nt"?r), n. One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one who lets or rents to others, proprietor," agent noun from rent (v.). Meaning "lessee, tenant, holder of property by payment of rent" is from 1650s.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who rents property from another. 2 (context legal English) One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another. Etymology 2
vb. 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.
WordNet
n. someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent" [syn: tenant]
an owner who receives payment for the use of their property by another
Usage examples of "renter".
Too early to be rattling around in the house with a renter under the roof, so she blew out her lamp and stepped out onto the covered walkway that ran in front of her place.
Panting now, Flaeros leaped up the next flight of stairs, heard with momentary satisfaction the crash of the foremost armaragor running straight into the edge of a door flung open by a bewildered renter, and raced like the wind along the low-ceilinged top floor of the Lion.
We refurbished them and gave the renters the option of buying the apartments they were living in.
A bald statement such as this implies inhumanity, but the implication is unjust because in most instances the renters would not have been able to pay the unsubsidized rent and would have had to leave whether I had come along or not.
And they talked of renters, and men to harvest the hay and feed the cattle in the winter.
Masicotte seemed as indifferent to me as her renters were, she provided richly for me while I waited.
Maddie and I discussed the old houses like this one that get neglected and destroyed in the hands of renters with absentee landlords.
Sunfish and water-ski renters who plied the small stretches of beach between hotels.
Diana lived with me for a while, a few desultory months, and then, once she had the renters removed from her house, she moved out of here and back in there.
Nay, even ventures To attack the renters, Old and new: A list he gets Of claims and debts, And deems nought done, while aught remains to do.
You will not have in ready money more than about 9000 francs of renters, because the Italian livre is not equal to the franc.
The clerk stamped the date on the bank form, initialed it, and pulled out a list of renters, comparing signatures.
I knew where the renters were, and were likely to be until their arraignments in the morning.
Hutch Maddon built on the site of the Strock cabin deteriorated with years of careless renters and in 1973 Jerry Garrett had it torn down.
Not content with running the rental plate and billing for his car, she had spent the past hour acquiring a dossier on the renter, Marvin Argus from Chicago, who now smiled at her from the glowing screen.