RENT-SEEKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rent-seeking mean? 

• RENT-SEEKING (noun)
  The noun RENT-SEEKING has 1 sense:

1. (economics) the theory that a person or firm seeks to make money by manipulating the economic environment rather than by making a profit through production or trade

  Familiarity information: RENT-SEEKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENT-SEEKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(economics) the theory that a person or firm seeks to make money by manipulating the economic environment rather than by making a profit through production or trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

rent-seeking; rent seeking

Hypernyms ("rent-seeking" is a kind of...):

economic theory ((economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods))

Holonyms ("rent-seeking" is a part of...):

economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)