rendition


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rendition/renˈdɪʃn/
noun
  • 1 a rendering of a dramatic, musical, or artistic work.
  • 2 a translation.
  • 3 (also extraordinary rendition) (especially in the US) the practice of sending a foreign criminal or terrorist suspect covertly to be interrogated in a country with less rigorous regulations for the humane treatment of prisoners.
– origin C17: from obs. Fr., from rendre ‘give back, render’.
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