landlord

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A person that leases real property

   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. 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. 3

   A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.

   • the lurking presence of “The Landlord”
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   1. 4

      To lease real property

      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.
      • 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 and Sherbourne, George Street.

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