landed

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Fucker never said a word, just landed straight in, with the wind, completely ignoring the pattern.

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In possession of land.

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adjective

In possession of land.

adjective

Consisting of land, especially with a single owner.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for landed.

adjective

In possession of land.

adjective

Consisting of land, especially with a single owner.

Example sentences

Fucker never said a word, just landed straight in, with the wind, completely ignoring the pattern.

Sweden, Norway and Finland all had monarchies, a landed gentry, and a peasant class.

The cheap land and lack of landed gentry created a culture that values entrepreneurship.

What if there is not an intricate system of landed class and privilege and you build the social and welfare state first?

Irish landed a job writing a column, in Japanese, for a local Kagoshima newspaper.

They were property of a small class of landed gentry who ruled over them with, at best, patriarchal indifference and at worst homicidal, spiteful authoritarianism.

I couch surfed and worked the recruiters endlessly and landed a job in 10 days.

It should have landed in Android a long time ago.

He landed a job at Japanese construction firm Shimizu Corp.

For instance, consider this thought experiment: set up a rogue, landed, state; have that state attack the U.

I took an initial stab at one assignment, moved onto other opportunities, and landed an offer before getting back to the project work.

He landed standing and still holding onto the girls.

Quote examples

If there isn't already an intricate system of landed class and privilege, who are "these folks over here" that give the money for the welfare and benefits?

The landed gentry lost much of its status and importance during 19th and 20th centuries, or joined (if they invested wisely) the class what the left likes to call "capitalists".

But there were still plenty of gentry left, and so a deal was struck: we (the peasants) get old age pensions and some trifling property ownership and a handful of other "benefits" and protections, and you get to retain the landed class privileges you've constructed and...

A similar proposal from a while back was one on "Rapid Bootstrapping of Space Industry," essentially concluding we could have a robust space industry with an industrial output 1,000,000x that of US GDP within about four decades - for as little as 12 metric tons landed on the moon to kickstart the process.