landowner
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Origin of landowner
Explanation
A landowner is someone who possesses many acres. Once you achieve your dream of buying a vast blueberry farm in Maine, you'll be a landowner too. The word landowner couldn't be more clear: it's someone who owns land. The term is often used for people who have a lot of it, so you might read a news story about a bill that would raise taxes on wealthy landowners, for example. But it's also a blanket term for anyone who owns property: "The city sent letters to all the landowners who will be affected by the construction project."
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These aircraft can only be called in after approval by the fire service incident commander, and when the landowner has "contractual arrangements" in place to cover the costs.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He got his political inspiration from seeing his father and other loggers “standing up to a wealthy landowner who thought he could squeeze them for more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“When I got up there, my landowner was already in active firefighting mode,” he told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Instead of notifying the authorities, the landowner urged George to head south to the Savannah River, where he would find employment with another landowner for the next two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
We handed most of the potatoes over to the landowner in exchange for our wages, but some we boiled into soup, which we ate every night for dinner.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
The BBC contacted members of the Country Land and Business Association, which represents 30,000 rural landowners and businesses in England and Wales, to ask about their experiences with hare coursing.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
When legislators proposed a bill arguing that the public shoreline extended 10 feet beyond the high-tide line, for example, landowners protested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
As locals questioned this growth, a city-commissioned Urban Land Institute study found the church was behaving similarly to most large institutional urban landowners, such as universities or hospitals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
A section of the River Kemp, in south Shropshire, had been straightened by landowners in the 1800s, disconnecting it from its natural floodplain and reducing biodiversity.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The antiunion coalfields of West Virginia came close to the feudal systems of the Middle Ages, where the lower classes worked for landowners and remained indebted to them for life.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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