different between assets vs rentier

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æsets/

Noun

assets

1. plural of asset

Noun

assets pl (normally plural, singular asset)

1. (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.

   His assets are much greater than his liabilities.

2. (accounting) The left side of a balance sheet.

   The assets must equal liabilities, otherwise there is an error in your balance sheet.

3. (law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
4. Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
5. (slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) Private parts; a woman's breasts or buttocks, or a man's genitalia.

Translations

Anagrams

• TESSAs, stases, tasses

Danish

Noun

assets n

1. definite genitive singular of as

Swedish

Noun

assets

1. definite genitive singular of ass

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French rentier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???nt?e?/, /????tje?/

Noun

rentier (plural rentiers)

1. An individual who receives an income, usually interest, rent, dividends, capital gains, or profits from his or her assets and investments.

Translations

See also

• unearned income
• capitalist

Anagrams

• Reinert, Terrien, reinter, terrine

French

Etymology

rente +? -ier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.tje/

Noun

rentier m (plural rentiers, feminine rentière)

1. rentier

Further reading

• “rentier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• inerter, retenir, terrien, terrine

Romanian

Etymology

From French rentier.

Noun

rentier m (plural rentieri)

1. rentier

Declension