renter

Meanings

Plural: renters

Noun

• someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
• an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person
• One who rents property or other goods from another.
• One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.
• (Synonym of rent boy) Male prostitute.
• A film worth renting, but not possibly worth visiting a cinema to see.

Verb

• To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
• To restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.

Synonyms

landlord, lessee, lessor, rentee, rentor, tenant