landowner

CEFRC1

/ˈlændˌəʊ.nə/

noun

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In 1880, the Irish boycotted a landowner, Captain C.C. Boycott, for failing to lower rents.
Tom is a wealthy landowner.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428
The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.
1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175

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