How to pronounce “rent-seeking”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (economics) The attempt to profit by manipulating the economic or political environment, for example, by seeking governmental action that restricts entry into a market.
• The effort to increase one's share of wealth without doing something productive or adding value.

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