land owner
Example Sentences
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Lease payments started at $12.2 million a year to the new land owner, and increase by 2.5% each year.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2025
Oprah Winfrey is the island's largest land owner.
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2023
Representatives for former sugar plantation land owner Alexander & Baldwin and the East Maui Irrigation Company did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment, nor did the attorney general’s office.
From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2023
As a young boy living on the land his family continued to work for years, he remembered a time when he wanted to ride a pony that belonged to the land owner.
From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2022
The part which the labourer gets is called wages; the share of the land owner is called rent; that of the capitalist is interest; and the government take taxes.
From Political economy by Jevons, W. Stanley