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grantepreneur
 n.— «Higher taxes needed to finance such action lead to growth of the tax avoidance industry and to the phenomenon of the grantepreneur and the rent-seeking society.» —by Dermot McAleese in Trinity College Dublin Synopsis: Business Economics For Managers Dec. 9, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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