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rent-seekers

rent-seekers is the plural of rent-seeker.

Meaning of rent-seeker

Noun

rent-seeker (plural rent-seekers)

  1. A person who engages in rent-seeking behavior.
    • The marginal rent-seeker may in fact have faced high information costs.1993 Jan, Thomas W. Hazlett, Robert J. Michaels, “The Cost of Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Cellular Telephone License Lotteries”, in Southern Economic Journal, volume 59, number 3, pages 425–435

Questions about rent-seekers

What is rent-seekers the plural of?
Rent-seekers is the plural of rent-seeker.

Words near rent-seekers in the dictionary

  1. rent-controlled
  2. rent-free
  3. rent-lowering gunshot
  4. rent-lowering gunshots
  5. rent-seeker
  6. rent-seekers
  7. rent-seeking
  8. rent-stabilized
  9. rent-to-own
  10. Renta
  11. rentabilities

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