freehold
1
8.2
- noun
- /ˈfriːhoʊld/
- UK
:
propiedad plena
- She'll have the use of it, but we'll retain the freehold.
- freehold land
- freehold tenure
- freehold rights
I've mentioned the transformation from freehold to leasehold.
- I've mentioned the transformation from freehold to leasehold.
- So the shops, the land, the house that your, you know, sits on sometimes if it's not freehold, it's like there's so many people who are super wealthy.
Examples
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Trotwood, Mr Wickfield owns the freehold of a very fine educational establishment in Canterbury.
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When Kenya attained independence in 1963, traditional communal ownership of land in Tsavo had been replaced with individualized freehold ownership.
Academic text (2018) -
How did Laura get her hands on the freehold to the plant?
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The most common property qualification was a freehold of 50 acres.
Blog text (28) -
Many of them, if they had freehold land or citizens of towns with a broad franchise, had taken part in the elections.
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Much of the land was held on lease from the colonial government or was purchased as freehold for a few pennies a hectare.
Academic text (1992) -
It was much my intention to add her 100 to our 80-acre freehold farm, as it was to someday pass it all on to my boy, Henry Freeman James, and to his thereafter.
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Even Julius Nyerere, who backed a nonracial citizenship, warned in his essay Ujamaa that freehold private land ownership could lead to a situation where Africans were unable to control the land in their own country.
Academic text (1998) -
Complex patterns of inheritance were radically simplified in the first 50 years of colonialism; under the Uganda Agreement, mailo was defined as freehold land that could be divided and directly inherited by sons.
Academic text (2005) -
In 1989, the British government gave the organization the freehold ownership of the land beneath the house.
Antonyms
How Complete
- UK
1
8.2
- Specialized
1
4.7
- UK
1
6.8
4
3.8
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Freehold is made of two simple parts, free and hold, where free means 'not controlled' and hold means 'to keep or own'. So a freehold is ownership of land or a building that you keep for as long as you want, not something you rent.