Meaning

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

    Rentier, Rentière

    рантье́rantʹjé

    рантьє́rantʹjé

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

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Algeria needs to transition from a rentier economy to an export-oriented market economy.

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  2. Algeria has a rentier economy.

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  3. Algeria is a rentier state.

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  4. He lives like a rentier.

    deEr lebt wie ein Rentier.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
individual who receives capital income:
Русский
By meaning 1
individual who receives capital income:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
individual who receives capital income:

Origin

Borrowed from French rentier.

Borrowed from French rentier.

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Forms

plural: rentiers
Singularrentier
Pluralrentiers

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rentier — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto