absentee landlord
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Critics have described him as an absentee landlord, but he also became an accidental landlord.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2023
City officials even went to the trouble of serving an absentee landlord in Israel.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2021
Some absentee landlord still hasn’t removed a mattress dumped in front of a burned-out townhouse on Hebron Avenue.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2020
In early July, a little more than a week after the inspection, tenants held a rally and press conference where several detailed their poor living conditions and what they said was an absentee landlord.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2018
Dean Stannus, as agent to an absentee landlord, was the most powerful personage in the place, virtually the lord of the manor.
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by James Godkin
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