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renter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun renter has 2 senses
- renter(n = noun.person) tenant - 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" has particulars: leaseholder, lessee, boarder, lodger, roomer
- renter(n = noun.person) Array - an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person; Array is a kind of owner, proprietor
is a kind of payer, remunerator
Derived forms verb rent3, verb rent4
Derived forms verb rent2, verb rent1
CIDE DICTIONARY
renter, n.
One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant. [1913 Webster]
renter, v. t. [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. [1913 Webster]
- To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
renter, n.
1 a person who rents.
2 Cinematog. (in the UK) a person who distributes cinema films.
3 sl. a male prostitute.
1 a person who rents.
2 Cinematog. (in the UK) a person who distributes cinema films.
3 sl. a male prostitute.
THESAURUS
renter
board-and-roomer, boarder, hirer, homesteader, incumbent, leaseholder, lessee, lodger, occupant, occupier, paying guest, resident, roomer, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, transient, transient guest, underlesseeROGET THESAURUS
renter
Possessor
N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.
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