landholding
Americannoun
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a piece of land that someone owns or occupies.
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the condition of owning or occupying a piece of land.
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Merchants could suddenly earn fortunes rivaling the landholding nobility, and strange ideas could undermine intellectual elites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025
Evergrande expects a loss of about 163 million yuan from the disposal of the 10,376.82 square meter landholding located in Shenzhen.
From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2022
So far, the government has seeded publicly available data for more than 50 million farmers of the 120 million identified landholding growers.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Honeygar takes the trust's total landholding in the Avalon Marshes to 418 hectares, extending a campaign that began in the 1970s when it bought its first parcel of land there.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2021
An opportune legacy enabled his father to buy a large property outside 'muddy York,' on which, in accordance with hereditary landholding instinct, he endeavoured to establish his family, after the old-world fashion.
From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald
On these landholdings and in their environs, proximity between white and black people produced surprising relationships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The legislation will compel owners of large landholdings to tell the surrounding community more about what happens on their land by publishing a land management plan.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
California, Texas and Florida are the states where it has the largest landholdings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
The effort has more than doubled the tribe’s landholdings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025
Walter R. Echo-Hawk writes that Indian landholdings in the US had plummeted to 156 million acres by 1881.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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