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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Kirchner said that ruling seemed to apply in this case, but indicated a decision favoring the landowner over the public was out of touch with the practices in other states.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Although legally the financial responsibility of clearing fly-tipped waste on private property falls on the landowner, the council said it stepped in given the "exceptional danger and scale of the site".
From BBC • Jun. 1, 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
The high-profile media tycoon was also a philanthropist and U.S. landowner; “I’ve won more than most.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
This he would have done but he was ashamed lest men see him, who was no longer held a farmer within the gates of the town, but a landowner and a rich man.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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