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Recent Examples of landholder
The new bill in parliament aims to claw back some of that land by expanding community ownership and giving more power to tenant farmers and smaller landholders.
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Robert Ormerod, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
These laws preserved large landholders’ power and profit margins by fixing property tax assessments and rates at ridiculously low levels and removing local authorities’ ability to change them.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
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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Robert Ormerod, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
These laws preserved large landholders’ power and profit margins by fixing property tax assessments and rates at ridiculously low levels and removing local authorities’ ability to change them.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
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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Another, Pioneer Creek Wind, is under construction and anticipated to generate $36 million in landowner payments and $84 million in county tax revenue over its lifespan, said county commissioner Shawn Tasset.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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The Tarrant Regional Water District, the island’s largest public landowner, has signed on to pay the tax despite being a tax-exempt government entity.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Landholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landholder. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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