LANDHOLDER Synonyms: 13 Similar and Opposite Words

landholder

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Recent Examples of landholder The DeCaLiBron Loop currently skirts the summit of Bross due to landholder concerns that have kept it closed for years. — John Meyer, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025 His great-grandfather had been a slave owner and large landholder; his parents were tenant farmers. — Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 But in numerous cases, landholders were not exactly fat cats. — Ian Johnson, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025 Still, enforcement can go only so far with the smaller landholders and subsistence farmers who are responsible for an increasingly large share of the remaining deforestation. — Jeff Tollefson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2013 See All Example Sentences for landholder

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For years, Mana was known as the largest private landowner in Wynwood — and the whole city of Miami.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
Among those buried there is Major Thomas Jones, the 18th-century landowner for whom Jones Beach is named.

— Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

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