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单词 landowning
释义
landowning
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈlændˌəʊ.nɪŋ/us
/ˈlændˌoʊ.nɪŋ/
used to refer to apersonorgroupthatownsland:
拥有土地的
She wasborninto awealthylandowningfamily.她出生在一个富裕的地主家庭。
Golf andtennisareperceivedaspursuitsof the British landowningclasses.高尔夫球和网球被视作英国地主阶级追捧的运动。
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  • Rich landowningfamiliesin theareahaveclashedwithgovernmentofficialsseekingtodistributetheirland.
  • In Singapore, the Arabsformedamajorlandowningelite.
  • Robert wasleftwith ahatredof the landowningclasses.
  • He came from Germany's landowningaristocracy.
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Rich and wealthy
(Definition oflandowningfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflandowning

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Most of them were economically dependent on patronage fromlandowningfamilies for survival over the year, for employment, for credit or emergency expenses.
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Only 13 per cent of the widows withlandowningfathers inherited as daughters, while 51 per cent of those withlandowninghusbands inherited as widows.
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For thelandowningclasses, the demonstration of investment of labour and capital had moral and political connotations through the trope of improvement.
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In most of the borderland, village communities are dominated bylandowningmales who stay with their land and marry wives from nearby villages.
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This also explains the absence of a richlandowningclass who could invest in the development of towns.
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Some registers have entries aboutlandowning, such as the acreage held and the location of household plots, but many registers do not.
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This article maintains that an earlier description of the socioeconomic elite as alandowningbourgeoisie is better illustrative of the fundamental characteristics of this group.
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During summer 2002, a random sample of 39 households was selected for interviews from a listing of the total 176landowninghouseholds.
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The married couple included the daughter of alandowningfamily of one-time gentry elites and the son of a low-status family.
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Armed with an outline design the would-belandowningbuilder now came to the practical problem, the modern equivalent of hanging the ceiling paper.
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This process especially affected thoselandowningfamilies with lesser landholdings and those with more numerous offspring.
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This turned many scions of thelandowningfamilies towards the urban economy.
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To return to the old conceptualisation of alandowningbourgeoisie is not, then, an invitation to close the debate but rather to reopen it.
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This encouraged many heirs of thelandowningfamilies to invest not just in the rural sector, but also in new areas of economic activity.
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Thus, two unrelated lawyers (or landowners) were likely to have experienced more shared pressures of writing than a lawyer and hislandowningcousin.
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