rent-seeking
寻租,寻租行为,讨租,追租
Definitions
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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.
Examples
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.