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词组 renta-
释义 renta-
prefix
hired, rented US, 1921
In commercial usage often used to create a company name, for instance: “Rentacar” (examples found in Australia, Ireland, Spain, UK, US) and “Rentavan” (examples found in Australia, Ireland, Mexico, UK). Both “rentacar” and “rentavan” are also used informally of a hired vehicle. Other use is often derogatory: “rentacrowd” (a hired clique), “rentamob” (a crowd assembled at political demonstration) and “rentamouth” (a speaker for hire).
  • The reply was just another Downing Street rentamissive [an impersonal letter]. — The Guardian, 25 June 1982
  • The networks and the news agencies already had their seismological rentaquote vacancies filled[.] — Christopher Brookmyre, Not the End of the World, p. 58, 1998
  • That the revelations of recent weeks might suddenly prove them right is of no consequence to the renta-gobs [hired speakers][.] — The Guardian, 25 July 2003
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