The official regulation of the amount that may be charged for rented property.

On which no rent is payable.

Without paying rent.

(economics) The attempt to profit by manipulating the economic or political environment, for example, by seeking governmental action that restricts entry into a market.

plural of rent boy

A person who engages in rent-seeking behavior.

A group of people who are paid to attend an event to increase attendance figures, rather than attending of their own volition.

(idiomatic, transitive) to lease, let; to allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent

(economics) the amount of recompense paid to a factor of production on top of its transfer earnings; this does not encompass costs incurred during the process of production or service

A form of social or economic protest in which tenants who rent housing, commercial space, or other property act as a group to refuse to pay their rent until the landlord makes demanded improvements to the property or to the terms of the rental contracts.