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landownership

landownership

1 4.7
The legal right to have land and the duties and benefits that come with it
  • noun
  • /ˈlændˌoʊnərʃɪp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : propiedad de la tierra
  • Land pooling represents a major transformation in landownership.
  • patterns of landownership
  • changes in landownership
  • individual landownership

Examples

  • Individual landownership and a worsening ratio of residents to land have created sometimes bitter conflicts over boundaries and inheritances.

    Academic text (2001)
  • A growing population, combined with concentrated landownership, has pushed Costa Rican peasants onto areas and lands that cannot sustain agriculture.

    Academic text (2002)
  • However, the social order of the day... ...did not permit landownership by the common man.

  • The next question to be considered is whether landownership is becoming more egalitarian in practice as a result of these legal changes.

    Academic text (2001)
  • One decade later, the percentage of landownership among those 1861 volunteers had declined by nearly 15 percent.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Another consequence of landownership patterns in this area of Brazil is that large holders generate higher unemployment.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Our article has shown that landownership was significantly more concentrated at the close of the Spanish colonial period than in 1910.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Women were 70% more likely to agree than men with the idea that landownership obligates them to be good land stewards.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The significance of comparative changes in patterns of landownership in these sugar-producing zones should be emphasized.

    Academic text (2002)
  • However, the landownership of the day did not permit ordinary people to own property.

Synonyms

tenure
vslandownership
  • Specialized
7 7.2

The legal right to have or use land

focuses on the legal right rather than responsibilities or benefits
landholding
vslandownership
1 5.1

An area of land that someone owns, like a farm or property

is the legal system and rights including duties and privileges beyond the parcel
land tenure
vslandownership
  • Specialized
1 6.7

The rules and rights that show who owns or uses land

adds duties and privileges alongside the legal right to possess land
landowning
vslandownership
4.1

People who have land and often wealth or high social status

focuses on rights and legal responsibilities rather than social status

Antonyms

Not having land to live on or farm

How Complete

freehold
  • UK
1 8.2
landownership
  • Specialized
1 4.7
leasehold
  • UK
1 6.8
tenancy
4 3.8
shared easement
  • Formal
8.1

Surface Forms

landownership singular

Morphology

landownership = landowner (transparent) = land + owner + ship

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ship' to 'landowner' to denote the state or condition of being a landowner; meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Landownership joins land, own, and the ending -ship, where -ship means 'state' or 'condition', just like in friendship. So landownership is the 'state of owning land', the legal rights and duties someone has when they own property.