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
There is no list of the landholding companies who as landlords absorb in many districts the economic rent paid by the mines working favorable seams.
From The Coming of Coal by Robert W. Bruere
On these landholdings and in their environs, proximity between white and black people produced surprising relationships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Many second-generation farmers are not willing to continue silk framing and the landholdings are spread in small sections.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Millrose seeks to mitigate that risk by mixing different landholdings together in a single asset pool—so-called cross collateralization—that makes its less palatable for homebuilders to walk away from a land package .
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
“We’re not afforded the opportunity to help design the programs, so the programs are mainly now designed for large landholdings and large acreage.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
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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