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rentiers

rentiers is the plural of rentier.

Meaning of rentier

Noun

rentier (plural rentiers)

  1. An individual who receives an income, usually interest, rent, dividends, capital gains, or profits from his or her assets and investments.
    • If today’s capitalists are mere lazy rentiers who contribute nothing to the production process, don’t they deserve to be downgraded to the status of feudal landlords?2022 April 13, Evgeny Morozov, “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason”, in New Left Review, number 133/134, pages 89–126

Questions about rentiers

What is rentiers the plural of?
Rentiers is the plural of rentier.

Words near rentiers in the dictionary

  1. rentice
  2. rentices
  3. rentier
  4. rentier state
  5. rentier states
  6. rentiers
  7. renting
  8. renting out
  9. rentings
  10. rentinoblastoma
  11. rentless

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