rentier

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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?

词形变化

rentiers plural

词源

Etymology tree
French rente
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -ier
French rentierbor.
English rentier
Borrowed from French rentier.
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