Meaning & use
Rentes
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Government bonds or annuities, especially those historically issued by the French government, that pay a fixed annual income.
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The widow lived comfortably on the income from her rentes.
Nineteenth-century French investors favored rentes for their stability.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from French, "rentes" appears in English economic and historical writing, especially about 19th-century France.
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annuitiesgovernment bonds
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