landownership

Noun

Meaning

The state or position of landowner.

The land belonging to a landowner; a smallholding.

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Examples

British plantation owners in the Lesser Antilles had been plagued by poor soil and erosion, and many were lured to the Dutch colonies by richer soils and the promise of landownership. Source: Internet

A successful land reform was introduced that abolished giant landholdings, but efforts to redistribute land by placing limits on landownership failed. Source: Internet

In an agrarian society, the only kind most of them knew, landownership was associated with freedom, respectability, and the good life. Source: Internet

In 1812, after the Russian conquest of Finland, "Old Finland" was rejoined to the rest of the country but the landownership question remained a serious problem until the 1870s. Source: Internet

In fact, the conversions left Peru with a far less unequal pattern of landownership than it had prior to the reform and with a much greater role for family farming than ever before in its history. Source: Internet

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2002. p. 48. Print. The concern shifted from encouraging private native landownership to satisfying the white settlers' demand for larger portions of land. Source: Internet

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