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.
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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
Don Macleod, head of land and property at law firm Turcan Connell, described the bill as "junk", arguing that ambiguity over the definition of a large landholding could make the law "unworkable and impossible".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
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
In 1703⁄04 the average size of landholding in Northampton County was 389 acres, in Accomack 520 acres.
From Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 by Walter Stitt Robinson
On these landholdings and in their environs, proximity between white and black people produced surprising relationships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Scottish Land and Estates, an organisation of rural landowners, said that too much "unevidenced" focus was being put on large landholdings.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
California, Texas and Florida are the states where it has the largest landholdings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
She is also from Mato Grosso do Sul, where her family has vast landholdings in sugarcane and other crops.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
George Washington was one of many surveyors whose work enabled them to increase their own landholdings.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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