landholding

English

Etymology

From land +‎ holding.

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Noun

landholding (plural landholdings)

1. A piece of property (land) that is held (owned).

   Synonym: landhold

   Hyponym: smallholding

   • 1990, Eduard B. Vermeer, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:

     Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened. For instance, the annual surtaxes of Buddhist temples' landholdings of Hsia-p'u county which had amounted to 515 taels in the late Ming dropped to 309 taels after Ch'ien-lung's edict, and to 229 taels soon afterwards.

2. The state or practice of owning land.

   Hyponym: smallholding

Related terms

• landholder
• smallholder

 

Translations

piece of property that is held

• Irish: gabháltas m

state of owning land

• Finnish: maanomistus