rendition

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Hyphenation: ren‧di‧tion

Noun

rendition (countable and uncountable, plural renditions)

An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work. [from 19th c.]
- 2011, Paul Lester, The Guardian, 12 Apr 2011:
  The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts.
- 2017 June 25, “Vaccines”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 17, HBO:
  Yes. That is Rob Schneider performing an impromptu rendition of his famous character: the annoying guy who is wrong.
A given visual reproduction of something. [from 20th c.]
Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work. [from 17th c.]
(law, chiefly US) Formal deliverance of a verdict. [from 18th c.]
(law, chiefly US) The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition. [from 19th c.]
- 2011, Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 30 Mar 2011:
  Since then, according to his lawyers and relatives, he has been repeatedly beaten, threatened with a firearm and with further rendition to Guantánamo by Ugandan officials, before being questioned by American officials.
(now rare) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.). [from 17th c.]
(now rare) The handing over of a person or thing. [from 17th c.]

Hyponyms

extraordinary rendition

Related terms

render

Translations

an interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work

Bulgarian: интерпретация (bg) f (interpretacija)
Dutch: weergave (nl) f, vertolking (nl) f, uitvoering (nl) f
Finnish: esitys (fi), tulkinta (fi)
German: Wiedergabe (de) f, Interpretation (de) f, Aufführung (de) f, Vortrag (de) m
Hindi: प्रतिपादन (hi) m (pratipādan)
Hungarian: tolmácsolás (hu), előadás (hu), interpretáció, interpretálás, ^{(please verify)} feldolgozás (hu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjengivelse m
Russian: трактовка (ru) (traktovka), толкование (ru) (tolkovanije), изложение (ru) (izloženije)

Verb

rendition (third-person singular simple present renditions, present participle renditioning, simple past and past participle renditioned)

(transitive) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.
- 2007, Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America‎, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 60:
  Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.

Anagrams

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