The term rentier state has been used since the 20th century.

It sought to create a business, perhaps a rentier, culture.

Cameron, being of the rentier class, did not need to work.

It was a good decade for the rentier and the small investor.

Kuwait's small population and substantial oil resources led it to become a Rentier state.

Also very important is the modern large rentier class.

Decades ago, America's rich were a true rentier class.

He was the owner of a large estate, agriculturist and rentier.

Pyramid schemes, also known as rentier firms, started their operations in 1991.

Beblawi identifies several other characteristics particularly associated with rentier oil states.

The pure rentier, however, is at a disadvantage in a rapidly burgeoning economy.

They constrain the ability of the government to pursue the public purpose while protecting the rentier class.

He was a rentier who became a politician.

Sandham replied that his only interest in the rentier class was to abolish them.

'That would make you distinctly employable with one of the Rentier firms.

I count myself an artist; but I am only a rentier, a parasite.

Paid for by poorer electricity consumers, who neither have the ability or finance to join the rentier class!

The super-poor, meanwhile, lead the life of the rentier.

The extravagant life of a charming rentier who thought nothing of consequences.

She and everyone else in the building have decided he's an elderly, paranoid, morbidly shy rentier.

Those who oppose liberalisation of the planning system are working only to protect the rents captured by the rentier.

Consequently in these resource-rich rentier states there is a challenge to developing civil society and democratization.

In short, instead of being the responsible master of a community enterprise, the landlord was becoming a rentier.

Nothing will be done to upset the stream of public money that goes more or less directly into the pockets of the rentier class.

Politicians and mainstream economists represent the interests of businesses, banks and the rentier class.