landlordism
the practice under which privately owned property is leased or rented to others for occupancy or cultivation.
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How to use landlordism in a sentence
The world was somewhat weary of landlordism, Pauperism, and Protestantism, and all the other "isms" of that unhappy country.
Roland Cashel | Charles James LeverThe heretofore obsequious Orangemen will refuse to respond to the tocsin of landlordism.
Seven Short Plays | Lady GregoryThe natural result of landlordism everywhere is already foreshadowed in this country by the example of William Scully in Illinois.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 | VariousSoon his estates began to suffer from that very dangerous economic sickness, known as "Absentee landlordism."
The Story of Mankind | Hendrik van LoonThus, historical investigators have been digging around the foundations of Irish landlordism.
The Land-War In Ireland (1870) | James Godkin
British Dictionary definitions for landlordism
/ (ˈlændlɔːˌdɪzəm) /
the system by which land under private ownership is rented for a fixed sum to tenants
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