RENTER (renter)

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Irregular inflected form: renter   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does renter mean? 

• RENTER (noun)
  The noun RENTER has 2 senses:

1. someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else

2. an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person

  Familiarity information: RENTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

renter; tenant

Context example:

the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent

Hypernyms ("renter" is a kind of...):

payer; remunerator (a person who pays money for something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "renter"):

leaseholder; lessee (a tenant who holds a lease)

boarder; lodger; roomer (a tenant in someone's house)

Derivation:

rent (engage for service under a term of contract)

rent (hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("renter" is a kind of...):

owner; proprietor ((law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business)

Derivation:

rent (grant use or occupation of under a term of contract)

rent (let for money)

 Context examples 

She became a subscriber; amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of books!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"I suspect," said Sir Walter coolly, "that Admiral Croft will be best known in Bath as the renter of Kellynch Hall. Elizabeth, may we venture to present him and his wife in Laura Place?"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)