Meaning & use
rente
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Income received from an investment, especially a fixed annual payment from government bonds or property, as used in European economic contexts.
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The elderly aristocrat lived comfortably off her rente rather than working.
Economists studied how rente income shaped class divisions in nineteenth-century France.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from French, rente is closely related to English rent and underlies the term rentier, someone who lives off unearned investment income.
Words with a similar meaning
annuity income
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