Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that owns land.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A holder, owner, or proprietor of land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A holder, owner, or proprietor of land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who owns land.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a holder or proprietor of land
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Examples
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If this be granted to him, it is next to be seen under what terms he is of opinion such a landholder, that is a
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Small landholder farmers, several hundred kilometers away in Kenya's southern Rift Valley, are being forced to ditch their crops.
Jonathan Kalan: Wasted Food in a Famine: the Real Tragedy Jonathan Kalan 2011
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Small landholder farmers, several hundred kilometers away in Kenya's southern Rift Valley, are being forced to ditch their crops.
Jonathan Kalan: Wasted Food in a Famine: the Real Tragedy Jonathan Kalan 2011
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If the State of New York buys a tract of land in California, does it have any privileges regarding that land that any other landholder in California does not?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Can a State Take Federal Land by Eminent Domain?” 2010
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Today, Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii's largest private landholder, controls about 365,000 acres worth an estimated $2.5 billion.
Hawaii Local's Inside Play Maura Webber Sadovi 2010
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Small landholder farmers, several hundred kilometers away in Kenya's southern Rift Valley, are being forced to ditch their crops.
Jonathan Kalan: Wasted Food in a Famine: the Real Tragedy Jonathan Kalan 2011
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With an estimated 80-100 million small-landholder farmers in East Africa and 25 million in South Africa, farming is a tangible and practical solution to the food insecurity catastrophe in both East and the Horn of Africa.
Agri-preneurship, A Solution to Africa's Food Crisis Rachel Zedeck 2010
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Programs such as mine are imperative because small-landholder farmers still lack the technical capacity and financial equity to enter wholesale markets.
Agri-preneurship, A Solution to Africa's Food Crisis Rachel Zedeck 2010
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But several published accounts cited him as the state's largest landholder, with more than 1 million acres owned or leased.
Dolph Briscoe Jr., governor of Texas during 1970s oil boom, dies at 87 2010
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St. Joe, which owns 577,000 acres of land in Florida mostly within 15 miles of the Gulf and is the biggest landholder in the Florida Panhandle, said the April disaster resulted in huge losses for the company when hundreds of tourists cancelled vacation plans to stay at its resorts.
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