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

We have occasional cases of unfair landlordism, but they are so rare as to be the talk of a county or two.

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

The record of Irish landlordism is not bright.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

Such a reservation would forever exclude the tenant from ownership, by erecting a new and perpetual system of landlordism in the place of the old.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin