landholding

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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, →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

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