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In government use, rendition can mean secretly transferring a person to another country's custody, sometimes to face torture.

means A particular way of performing, translating, or interpreting something — or, in grimmer government usage, the act of handing a person over to another country's custody, often quietly.

from From French 'rendre,' meaning 'to give back' or 'to render,' tracing further to Latin 'reddere' — 're-' (back) plus 'dare' (to give). For centuries it simply meant a 'giving back' or a rendering of a performance. The chilling second meaning — 'extraordinary rendition,' the covert transfer of suspects between countries, sometimes to face interrogation outside normal legal protections — emerged in intelligence and legal usage in the late 20th century, borrowing the word's sense of 'handing over' and stretching it into something far darker than anyone handing back a library book ever intended.

legal sense
transferring a person across borders, no trial required
musical sense
your cover of a song nobody asked for
extraordinary rendition
euphemism doing the heaviest lifting in English
shared root
from reddere, latin for to give back
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