Citations:rent-seeking

Additional support for noun sense 2: ‘The effort to increase one's share of wealth without doing something productive or adding value.’



 * 1909, Edward Marshall, The Writing on the Wall: A Novel Founded on Olga Nethersole’s Play by William J Hurlbut, p. 147
 * …their management, or that quality so common in collectors, persistence in rent seeking which tenants are quite likely to call persecution.


 * 1918, Orville Augustus Park, Harry Stone Crozier, edited by Harry B Skillman, 1917 Supplement to Park’s Annotated Code of the State of Georgia 1914, Second Title - Chap. 18, Art. 1, Sec. 2, p.523
 * Recoupment: Where tenants filed affidavit on trial of distress warrant for rent seeking to recoup because of failure to repair …