Used in a Sentence

landowner

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for landowner.

Editorial note

Many are desperate and will take on jobs they cannot do safely (or with the results the landowner wants!).

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Quick take

A person who owns land.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of landowner gathered in one view.

noun

A person who owns land.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for landowner.

Example sentences

1

Many are desperate and will take on jobs they cannot do safely (or with the results the landowner wants!).

2

Since making something a landmark is a public benefit, it would be fair for the government to compensate the landowner for the lost value a landmark designation would exact.

3

And as your TOS are updated, things might want to consider: 1) Who owns the data--the landowner or the tenant?

4

Other cities could have better profit for the landowner to rent out, but it would only really share the no-contract perk.

5

The Alaska Railroad Corporation is the majority landowner in Whittier, but it doesn’t pay property taxes, and it employs few residents.

6

Another solution could be to take that 1/2 plot of land the city got, and give 1/4 of that to the squeezed landowner.

7

All of the kratom on the market comes from this mystery world landowner who owns dozens of legal drug plantations in all the continents.

8

West Africans had resistance to malaria (including sickle cell anemia) and the Southern landowner with slaves made more money than the landowner with European indentured servants where anywhere from 40-70% would be dead or otherwise not working due to disease.

9

Newsletters almost universally go to spam because I'm not a landowner who has the disposable income to just buy arbitrary things that are advertised to me.

10

Those for-profit companies have been granted extremely valuable rights-of-way by the municipal governments without needing to negotiate individually with each and every landowner whose property they cross with their lines.

11

As a Greek-American and Greek landowner, I'd prefer the Greeks stop fucking up and get fiscally responsible for once instead of courting corporations or other nations to take care of them.

12

Even if a landowner has a bad experience with one company, it is usually many years before they hire loggers again, making it difficult to punish a sloppy or unsafe company by taking the business elsewhere.

Quote examples

1

A 3x-4x rent increase is not treating your tenant as a "trading partner", it's using your status as landowner to your enrichment and their detriment.

2

"high taxes on the land you're using" Lines (power, telegraph, gas, etc) are generally run on easements purchased from the underlying landowner.

3

If I’m an overlying landowner, I have the right to pump as much water as I can..." leads only to the tragedy of the commons and ensuing disaster...

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use landowner in a sentence?

Many are desperate and will take on jobs they cannot do safely (or with the results the landowner wants!).

What does landowner mean?

A person who owns land.

What part of speech is landowner?

landowner is commonly used as noun.