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His great-grandfather had been a slave owner and large landholder; his parents were tenant farmers.
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Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
But in numerous cases, landholders were not exactly fat cats.
—Ian Johnson, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
The Ocean View School District is the largest landholder and provider of open green space in northwest Orange County, covering over 315 acres.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
Still, enforcement can go only so far with the smaller landholders and subsistence farmers who are responsible for an increasingly large share of the remaining deforestation.
—Jeff Tollefson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2013
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Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
But in numerous cases, landholders were not exactly fat cats.
—Ian Johnson, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
The Ocean View School District is the largest landholder and provider of open green space in northwest Orange County, covering over 315 acres.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
Still, enforcement can go only so far with the smaller landholders and subsistence farmers who are responsible for an increasingly large share of the remaining deforestation.
—Jeff Tollefson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for landholder
landowner
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The story of Javier Chocobar, a member of the indigenous Chuchagasta community in northwest Argentina’s Tucumán Province, who in 2009 tried to defend himself and his people from being forcibly evicted from their land by a local landowner and two former police officers.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
1 May 2026
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The operation required approvals from federal agencies, state agencies and the landowner.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Landholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landholder. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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