landlordism

[ land-lawr-diz-uhm ]

/ ˈlænd lɔrˌdɪz əm /

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noun

the practice under which privately owned property is leased or rented to others for occupancy or cultivation.

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Origin of landlordism

First recorded in 1835–45; landlord + -ism

Words nearby landlordism

landline, landlocked, landlocked salmon, landloper, landlord, landlordism, landlubber, landman, landmark, landmass, land measure

How to use landlordism in a sentence

The world was somewhat weary of Landlordism, Pauperism, and Protestantism, and all the other "isms" of that unhappy country.
Roland Cashel|Charles James Lever
The heretofore obsequious Orangemen will refuse to respond to the tocsin of landlordism.
Seven Short Plays|Lady Gregory
The natural result of landlordism everywhere is already foreshadowed in this country by the example of William Scully in Illinois.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887|Various
Soon his estates began to suffer from that very dangerous economic sickness, known as "Absentee Landlordism."
The Story of Mankind|Hendrik van Loon

Thus, historical investigators have been digging around the foundations of Irish landlordism.
The Land-War In Ireland (1870)|James Godkin

British Dictionary definitions for landlordism

landlordism

/ (ˈlændlɔːˌdɪzəm) /

noun

the system by which land under private ownership is rented for a fixed sum to tenants

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