landowner
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Origin of landowner
Explanation
A landowner is someone who possesses many acres. Once you achieve your dream of buying a vast blueberry farm in Maine, you'll be a landowner too. The word landowner couldn't be more clear: it's someone who owns land. The term is often used for people who have a lot of it, so you might read a news story about a bill that would raise taxes on wealthy landowners, for example. But it's also a blanket term for anyone who owns property: "The city sent letters to all the landowners who will be affected by the construction project."
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Although legally the financial responsibility of clearing fly-tipped waste on private property falls on the landowner, the council said it stepped in given the "exceptional danger and scale of the site".
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
“When I got up there, my landowner was already in active firefighting mode,” he told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Near the Pee Dee River that runs through the Carolinas, George began working for a white landowner until, he recalls, a “hue and cry found me out.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Around sunset on Sept. 22, six days after Cynthia was last seen, a rural landowner was walking her dog on a private dirt road 40 miles south of Arlington when she noticed a foul odor.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
It looked to be a good harvest this year, though in the way of sharecroppers, they had to pay off the landowner first.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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