landownership
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈlændˌoʊnərʃɪp/
- Specialized
- Land pooling represents a major transformation in landownership.
- patterns of landownership
- changes in landownership
- individual landownership
Examples
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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.
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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
2
7.2
The legal right to have or use land
1
6.7
The rules and rights that show who owns or uses land
1
5.1
An area of land that someone owns, like a farm or property
People who have land and often wealth or high social status
Antonyms
How Complete
- UK
1
8.2
- Specialized
1
4.7
- UK
1
6.8
4
3.8
- Formal
1
8.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.