rendition
noun/renˈdɪʃn/
/renˈdɪʃn/
- [countable] the performance of something, especially a song or piece of music; the particular way in which it is performed synonym interpretation
- The band gave a live rendition of their latest single.
- (also extraordinary rendition)[uncountable] (especially in the US) the practice of sending foreign suspects to be questioned in another country where the laws about the treatment of prisoners are less strict
- They claimed that there had been rendition flights via Scotland.
- The move was an attempt to legalize extraordinary rendition.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from obsolete French, from rendre ‘give back, render’.
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