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landlord
/ˈlæn(d).lɔɹd/
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What does landlord mean?
noun
- A person that leases real property; a lessor.
- The owner or manager of a public house.
- (slang) A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
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verb
- (rare) To lease real property; to act as a lessor.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlæn(d).lɔɹd/
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Among the dishes served up to him, the landlord especially recommended a certain giblet of “native rabbit,” on which he prided himself.
“There are tremendous sarcasms against a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents, and makes no returns.”
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White people are more in evidence here, and farmer and hired labor replace to some extent the absentee landlord and rack-rented tenant.
At last both got up and left the room, the landlord finishing his glass of whiskey and water before he went away.
When we retired to our chamber, I asked Marion why he had not given that brute, our landlord, a proper set down.