Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who lives on income from property or investments.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, etc.; a fund-holder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An individual who receives an income, usually interest, rent, dividends, or capital gains, from his or her assets and investments.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from rente, yearly income, from Old French; see rent.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French.

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Examples

  • February 19th, 2010 at 9: 38 am morgan, rentier is a well established and well defined term. the fact that you are not familiar with it and have some definitions muddled is irrelevant.

    Matthew Yglesias » Is Stimulus Impossible 2010

  • A rentier is a person who lives on income from property and investments.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 1, 2010 2010

  • You see, in the past, Taiwan, when people heard about Keelung Harbor, Taichung Harbor, Kaohsiung Harbor, those areas were seen by most Taiwanese as "rentier" -- an area that was forbidden.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • It is certainly true that a successful, popular, nonviolent uprising against the Libyan regime would be a greater challenge for pro-democracy forces than in Tunisia or Egypt, given that Libya is what political scientists call a "rentier state," a country that derives a substantial portion of its revenues not from the labor or its people, but from the "rent" of its natural resources to external clients.

    Stephen Zunes: Libya: Was Armed Revolt and Western Intervention the Only Option? Stephen Zunes 2011

  • The readership of the New York Times is the wealthy, in effect, the rentier, which is to say, he who has got to where he was going; and our paper of record, absent a constituency of the theatrically savvy, has become a champion of the moot, appealing to the intellectual pretensions of its readership.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • As significant is the fact that both the USA and Britain, following the logic of neo-liberal globalization have de-industrialized and turned as a result into "rentier", mostly financial economies, outsourcing most of their production to poorer countries where labor is cheaper and less organized.

    possible next stages in the global economic situation 2009

  • They project this wonderful result to occur only by heavy lifting, lots of punitive laws, enormous bureaucratic expenditures, and lots of payments to 'rentier' outfits like NRDC, and extraordinary efforts by 2035!

    Autoblog Green Sebastian Blanco 2010

  • They project this wonderful result to occur only by heavy lifting, lots of punitive laws, enormous bureaucratic expenditures, and lots of payments to 'rentier' outfits like NRDC, and extraordinary efforts by 2035!

    Autoblog Green Sebastian Blanco 2010

  • The official excuse is that it will make the national economy more competitive, and therefore overcoming its 'rentier' history; the sort of foolish assertion that could only be accompanied by an unfettered capitalist agenda.

    Indymedia Ireland 2010

  • They project this wonderful result to occur only by heavy lifting, lots of punitive laws, enormous bureaucratic expenditures, and lots of payments to 'rentier' outfits like NRDC, and extraordinary efforts by 2035!

    Autoblog Green Sebastian Blanco 2010

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