landowning
Americanadjective
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“He is simply a landowner, coming from a large landowning family,” and his interactions with others in the indictment were solely for legitimate business deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, the Deep South consisted of a landowning class, some of whom relocated from slave plantations in the Caribbean, who formed an "oligarchic, top-down society".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
There are already wind turbines atop the butte, built by the landowning Galt family with Borgquist’s help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
With fair offers for their properties, and few interested heirs, most landowning families were willing to sell.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the landowning classes supplied this kind of direction to the State as the fruit of their leisure, and, despite some narrowness and selfishness, they undoubtedly did their work well.
From Success (Second Edition) by Max Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook
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