rentier
C1CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General noun
A person who lives on income from property or investments rather than from work.
The town's economy served a leisured class of rentiers who had not worked a day in three generations.
Business noun
A person or economy deriving income chiefly from property, rents or investments rather than productive work.
An economy dominated by rentier interests tends to under-invest in genuinely productive enterprise.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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