LANDHOLDER Synonyms: 13 Similar and Opposite Words

landholder

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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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Where private citizens refuse to sell their land, companies are turning to eminent domain, the government’s inherent power to seize private property without a landowner’s consent.

— Aaron Walayat, The Conversation, 16 July 2026
In 1996, the previous landowner donated a conservation easement to the trust with the intention of protecting the land’s mix vegetation and wildlife that includes the California king snake, California red-legged frog and the acorn woodpecker.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026

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