Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The position or duties of a landlord.
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Examples
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Onfield violence, roguery, landlordship and divorce – Peter Storey's autobiography has it all
True Storey by Peter Storey – review Barney Ronay 2010
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And before long we're into retirement and pub landlordship and encounters with Howard Marks and all the rest of it.
True Storey by Peter Storey – review Barney Ronay 2010
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He held the landlordship of an inn to be the same as Shaw's definition of marriage - as something combining the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959
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Wide territory was needed, so that at last absentee landlordship was common.
The Negro 1915
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He was not supreme landlord, for landlordship did not exist in Mexico.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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For example, since the great revolution which swept away the landlordship and fiscal exemptions of the French nobility, a marquisate or a dukedom in France is of scarcely more political importance than a doctorate of laws in a New England university.
The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871
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