economic rent

1. 1.

   the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

   Synonymsrent

   Broaderreturn

Questions about economic rent

What does economic rent mean?

economic rent means "the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions".

What is another word for economic rent?

Close synonyms include rent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is economic rent a common word?

economic rent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.