landholder

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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. 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 In Latest 2 Surveys—As Most Polls Show Razor-Thin Race iPhone 17 Pro Max Design Upgrade: New Look Predicted In Latest Leak Third, revenue to the state and to private landholders would decline. Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024 The company gives free technical support and training to small landholders, and in partnership with other companies, also employs its own firefighters. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for landholder
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landowner
Noun
  • Also, new changes to North Dakota regs allow landowners to post their property electronically, so pay attention to both physical and digital property boundaries.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 30 July 2025
  • Some became vacation houses for wealthy landowners with big families, while others started a slow process of deterioration, Pereira explains.
    Aileen Weintraub, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2025

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“Landholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landholder. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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