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Landholding   /lˈændhˌoʊldɪŋ/   Listen
Landholding

noun
1.
Ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land.
2.
A holding in the form of land.






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"Landholding" Quotes from Famous Books



... begun to manufacture iron out of the bog ores found in the swamps and hummocks of a neighboring district, and, with the tastes of a landholding and slaveholding family, had erected around his furnace a considerable town, his own residence as proprietor conspicuous in the midst. There he spent a large part of the time, and not always in the company of his family, ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... not propose to enter upon the system of landholding in Scotland or Ireland, which appears to me to bear the stamp of the Celtic origin of the people, and which was preserved in Ireland long after it had disappeared in other European countries formerly inhabited by the Celts. That ancient race ...
— Landholding In England • Joseph Fisher



Words linked to "Landholding" :   ownership, property, holding, belongings



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