landlordism

American  

[land-lawr-diz-uhm] / ˈlænd lɔrˌdɪz əm /

noun

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

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landlordism British  

/ ˈlændlɔːˌdɪzəm /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of landlordism

First recorded in 1835–45; landlord + -ism

Example Sentences

While its principal occupant moved gingerly through mine-strewn primary-election fields, the Ford White House plainly reflected the ill effects of absentee landlordism and political-year preoccupation.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a final purge last fall, even this stratagem was exhausted, and old cadres resorted to accusing new cadres of "landlordism."

From Time Magazine Archive

He springs from the small farmer class, which has sworn to extirpate landlordism, which, to their minds, is synonymous with British rule.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

To exchange the rack-rented but limitless fields of Irish landlordism for the rickety and equally rack-rented tenements, with the checkerboard streets, where all must keep moving, is only adding sordidness to spare sadness.

From An Anarchist Woman by Hapgood, Hutchins

But he presents an example of that absentee landlordism which has been the chief and peculiar curse of this unfortunate country.

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert