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1860 Leisure Hour 19 July 460/2 In return for black-mail or protection-rent, they shared the property of those who paid it, and engaged to defend it from aggressions.

1906 W. McAdoo Guarding Great City vi. 86 The manager of a disorderly house..does not feel any sense of security unless someone representing the police authorities has received money. These men and women hold their money from the landlord and pay their ‘protection rent’.

1941 Amer. Hist. Rev. 46 536 Discussing that aspect of mercantilist activity reflected in the use of war to increase national wealth, he [sc. F. C. Lane] pointed out that the measure of its success requires computation of the ‘protection rent’ involved.

1958 F. C. Lane in Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 18 409 I propose ‘protection rent’ in order to have a term to apply to profits arising from differences in the whole range of costs incurred in using or controlling violence. These included convoy fees, tribute to the Barbary pirates, or higher insurance for voyages into pirate-infested waters, bribes or gifts to customs officials..and other kinds of smuggling costs.

1988 D. Rothermund Econ. Hist. India ii. 11 The rising Ottoman empire provided protection to the old trade routes, from which a good deal of protection rent could be derived.