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As Joyce's spendthrift father slid down the social ladder from landlordship to bankruptcy, the family moved house to house to avoid outstanding rent bills.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2019

Last week Senator Borah knew the acid test had come for this absentee political landlordship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wide territory was needed, so that at last absentee landlordship was common.

From The Negro by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)

He was not supreme landlord, for landlordship did not exist in Mexico.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John