private owner

collocation in English

meaningsofprivateandowner

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private
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.vət/us
/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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owner
noun[C]
uk
/ˈəʊ.nər/us
/ˈoʊ.nɚ/
someone who ...
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(Definition ofprivateandownerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If it is so, we should be calculating the stream of future benefits on account of timber to potentialprivateowner.
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Theprivateownercould, and should, plant much more substantially than at present.
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If expenses get out of control, the only recourse theprivateownerhas is to cut down on his planting work and lay off men.
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That is one aspect of the question as it relates to theprivateowner.
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Such action would have been a drastic step in that it would have involved denying the rights of aprivateowner.
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How much protection has theprivateowneragainst this enormous monopoly?
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I have been told that theprivateownermade a profit.
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If aprivateownerputs in plans to convert a property, that property is immediately considered by an aquisitions panel.
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Then there is the further question of what the powers, coercive or persuasive, of the forestry authority should be in relation to theprivateowner.
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So it is already, and always has been, for theprivateowneror any other owner.
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Moreover, theprivateownerfinds it almost impossible to build a house himself.
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Would he really like us to mete out the same measure of justice, as he puts it, to theprivateowner?
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Some times the site is required from a local authority, and sometimes it may be from aprivateowner.
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I put in a plea for theprivateowner, the owner-occupier, when that decision is finally made.
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That seems one of the reasons for retaining private ownership and the opportunity for the individualprivateownerto put his ideas into practice.
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These inter-governmental agreements seem to me to be an infringement ofprivateownerrights.
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The man working for the smallprivateowner—the little man round the corner—can easily do the job very quickly.
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He said that first of allprivateowner-occupiers were buying the houses and then persons were able to purchase houses and live in them.
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It is difficult to see why aprivateownershould not get the additional standards of profit as in the case of others.
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They should have the opportunity to say whether they want to continue as they are or to work for an unknownprivateowner.
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