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landlord
UK /ˈlænd.lɔːd/ US /ˈlæn(d).lɔɹd/
noun 3verb 1
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4ADJ.
criminal, happy, own, shocked, used
VERB + LANDLORD
annoyed, became, document, hide, pay, rent, robbed, say
LANDLORD + NOUN
tenant, trampoline
PREP.
about, between, from, in, up
Definitions
noun
1
A person that leases real property; a lessor.
Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie, Then to haue this difference in degrees: The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees. So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]
2
The owner or manager of a public house.
When asked to explain why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar windows.
3
A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
the lurking presence of “The Landlord”
verb
1
To lease real property; to act as a lessor.
All kinds of "Dulishevskis" were "landlording" in Tisza's time, and have continued under the Communists.
cannot admit realization of realities without admitting a changed view of the world she landlords.
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Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie, Then to haue this difference in degrees: The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees. So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]
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When asked to explain why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar wind
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the lurking presence of “The Landlord”
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All kinds of "Dulishevskis" were "landlording" in Tisza's time, and have continued under the Communists.
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cannot admit realization of realities without admitting a changed view of the world she landlords.
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Middlemen had fairly steady relationships with Meridian; the same people were landlording houses in all the places where Meridian was assembling land: West St Jamestown, Homewood and Suffolk, Dundas a
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