Crossword clues for rentier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rentier \Ren`tier"\ (r?N`ty?"), n. [F. See 5th Rent.] One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1847, from French rentier, "holder of rental properties or investments that pay income," from rente "profit, income" (see rent (n.1)).
Wiktionary
n. An individual who receives an income, usually interest, rent, dividends, capital gains, or profits from his or her assets and investments.
WordNet
n. someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments
Wikipedia
Rentier may refer to:
- Rentier capitalism, economic practices of gaining profit by monopolizing access to property
- Rentier state, a state which derives national revenues from the rent of indigenous resources
- Operation Rentier, a German military operation in Finland in World War II
Usage examples of "rentier".
As long as we lived up to that we flourished, but as soon as we settled down and went to sleep and became rentiers we were bound to decay.
When he sets out to depict what he conceives as the desirable type of human being, it turns out to be simply a cultivated, humanitarian version of the upper-middle-class rentier, the sort of person who in those days used to haunt picture galleries in Italy and subscribe heavily to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
You are the kind of rich, middle-class rentiers and businessmen who might be expected to be taken in by such a scheme.