landholding
Americannoun
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landholdings
plural
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a piece of land that someone owns or occupies.
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the condition of owning or occupying a piece of land.
adjective
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The impact of Indonesia’s new agrarian reform law remains pending on landholding limits, conflict resolution and the powers of a new land-reform agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Evergrande expects a loss of about 163 million yuan from the disposal of the 10,376.82 square meter landholding located in Shenzhen.
From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2022
So far, the government has seeded publicly available data for more than 50 million farmers of the 120 million identified landholding growers.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Honeygar takes the trust's total landholding in the Avalon Marshes to 418 hectares, extending a campaign that began in the 1970s when it bought its first parcel of land there.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2021
A dread of innovation was spreading among the landholding classes.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
On these landholdings and in their environs, proximity between white and black people produced surprising relationships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Part of the case for the stock is that new landholdings for non-Lennar customers carry better returns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
The freeholder of the building is the Grosvenor Estate, which has extensive landholdings in central London.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
The effort has more than doubled the tribe’s landholdings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025
Two farmers, whose landholdings were small when compared to the great areas controlled by some of the Virginia slaveholders, were outspoken in their criticism of the institution of slavery.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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