rent-seeking 的定义
Economics.
- the act or process of using one’s assets and resources to increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth.
- the act or process of exploiting the political process or manipulating the economic environment to increase one’s revenue or profits: Rent-seeking by lobbyists succeeded in obtaining favorable tariff treatment for the company’s exports.
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- Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.
- The detectives are still at it, seeking to account for a period of time when Brinsley may well have paused to sit somewhere.
- Most other social justice movements are seeking some shift of power and money.
- The child almost died from the delay of an hour in seeking help.
- Either way, guests seeking a holiday getaway there can also enjoy a tingle of telling truth to power by posting their own reviews.
- But they soon fell out, for Murat had the audacity to try and make these patriots fight instead of merely seeking plunder.
- He returned to the hotel, and, eluding a gossip-seeking landlady, went up to his room.
- Old Holmes furrowed his brow and closed one eye, seeking with the other the inspiration of the sky.
- Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.
- A fourth lives upon rent, dozing in his chair, and neither toils nor spins.