Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun economic_rent

1 sense of economic rent

Sense 1
economic rent, rent -- (the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions)
       => return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff -- (the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%")