LANDHOLDER Synonyms: 13 Similar and Opposite Words

landholder

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as in landowner

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Recent Examples of landholder The DeCaLiBron Loop currently skirts the summit of Bross due to landholder concerns that have kept it closed for years. — John Meyer, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025 His great-grandfather had been a slave owner and large landholder; his parents were tenant farmers. — Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 But in numerous cases, landholders were not exactly fat cats. — Ian Johnson, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for landholder

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Mass death had made the old hierarchy newly fragile, and Parliament moved to restore it, with the laborer kept in his place and the landowner’s command protected.

— JP Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
The decade-long fight — including the defeat of county efforts to keep the sand open to all, flip-flopping state laws and landowner lawsuits — has left beachgoers to navigate a confusing patchwork of beach access.

— Debbie Elliott, NPR, 4 Sep. 2026

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