landowning
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- non-landowning adjective
Example Sentences
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This clan has, for generations, sorted out any problems the Abdalahs, one of Mr. Mueenuddin’s landowning families, have had with their laborers and with their neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
The grant is based on a percentage of the profits of the independent property and landowning business, the Crown Estate.
From BBC • May 10, 2025
The so-called English squirearchy, which began as a military class, gradually became a landowning caste from which the members of Parliament were elected.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2023
His father, a member of a prominent landowning family, drowned in the Pacific war.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023
As applied to the business and landowning class, law was notoriously a flexible, convenient, and highly adaptable function.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers
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