rendition

UK/ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/US/ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/

nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,077 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: renditions

A rendition is a particular performance or version of a work. A fine rendition, her rendition of the song, a faithful rendition.

It is the word for one performer's take on something everybody knows. The other sense is grim and modern: extraordinary rendition is the transfer of a prisoner to another country outside any legal process.

Definitions of rendition

1nounrenditionA particular performance or version of a work.C1
“The choir gave a moving rendition of the national anthem.”

rendition is a performance.

Where it comes from

French rendition comes from rendre, to give back or render.

Proto-Indo-European
*deh₃-
French
rendition
English, today
rendition

Built from

rendre · French — to render
reddition · French — reddition

From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

rendition in the wild

Where extradition is compelled by laws, such as among sub-national jurisdictions, the concept may be known more generally as rendition.
Extradition
Extraordinary rendition began under the administration of President Bill Clinton and continued under the administration of President George W.
Extraordinary rendition
Extraordinary rendition continued under the Obama administration, with targets being interrogated and subsequently taken to the U.S. for trial.
Extraordinary rendition
El-Masri filed suit against the CIA for his arrest, extraordinary rendition and torture.
Khalid El-Masri
For criminal suspects, extradition is the most common type of rendition.
Rendition (law)

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Related words

the rendre family

surrender

rendition — used about once every 7,814 pages · #11,077 · point at the bar for the others

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