rendition

plural renditions

1. countableuncountableAn interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.First known use 19th c.

   Near-synonym: rendering

   2 more examples

   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.

   2011 April 12, Paul Lester, The Guardian

   Yes. That is Rob Schneider performing an impromptu rendition of his famous character: the annoying guy who is wrong.

   2017 June 25, “Vaccines”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), via HBO

   Synonyms: interpretation, rendering

2. countableuncountableA given visual reproduction of something.First known use 20th c.

   Synonyms: rendering

3. countableuncountableTranslation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.First known use 17th c.
4. UScountableuncountablelawFormal deliverance of a verdict.First known use 18th c.
5. UScountableuncountablelawThe handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction.First known use 19th c.

   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.

   2011 March 30, Ian Cobain, The Guardian

   Synonyms: extradition

6. archaiccountableuncountableThe surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).First known use 17th c.
7. archaiccountableuncountableThe handing over of a person or thing.First known use 17th c.

present singular third person renditions · participle present renditioning · participle past renditioned · past renditioned

1. transitiveTo surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.

   Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.

   2007, Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 60