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landholding

landholding \landholding\ n.

  1. ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land.

  2. A holding in the form of land; the land owned by a person.

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landholding

n. 1 A piece of property (land) that is held (owned). 2 The state of owning land.

WordNet
landholding
  1. n. ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land

  2. a holding in the form of land

Usage examples of "landholding".

The Veritas trickling into other landholdings exerted an enormous destabilizing influence.

The mag-lev lines from each landholding ran straight into First Landing at the large supply hub and boarding station.

At the mag-lev station in the industrial section, several containers were just now being loaded by automated cargo systems that transferred shipments from one landholding onto a spur bound for other villages.

Though they ostensibly reported to the Truthsayers Guild, there were times when Tharion suspected their loyalty might instead lie with the landholding they considered home.

During the takeover of the weaker landholding those many years ago, Dokken had indeed slaughtered the entire Van Petersden family and replaced the true infant Michel with another of his clones.

Warring between themselves will make the landholding lords weak, then, invaders will sweep in.

The brutal murders had occurred in the isolated wastelands between the landholdings of Carsus and Bondalar, out in the construction camps for the new mag-lev rail that would link the two holdings.

An efficient mag-lev network already connected each of the nineteen scattered landholdings with the hub city of First Landing, but in an unprecedented alliance, Carsus and Bondalar had decided to join their holdings directly, without passing through the central point.

Representatives from the outer landholdings met to make deals, trade supplies, and increase their own power.

The treatise was many centuries old, but filled with wisdom that could be transferred from warring Italian city-states to the landholdings of Atlas.

The other two captains, long since dead, had founded the powerful landholdings of Toth and Koman many generations earlier.

Veritas trickling into other landholdings exerted an enormous destabilizing influence.

The big table nearest him was occupied by a noisy, cheerful group of farmers from the Arian landholdings, nine or ten brawny men and lithe ladies, all deeply tanned and smelling strongly of honest work.

Benjamin Franklin, the connections of Alexander Hamilton to wealthy interests through his father-in-law and brother-in-law, the great slave plantations of James Madison, the enormous landholdings of George Washington.

Black overland wires stretched across the landscape, extending to substations where the electricity was sold to other landholdings.