absentee landowner

collocation in English

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absentee
noun[C]
uk
/ˌæb.sənˈtiː/us
/ˌæb.sənˈtiː/
someone who is not at school or work when they ...
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landowner
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlændˌəʊ.nər/us
/ˈlændˌoʊ.nɚ/
someone who owns land, especially a large amount ...
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(Definition ofabsenteeandlandownerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This created a large number of absentee landowners.
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Additionally, the land tenure reform committees do not allow absentee landowners nor is there unallocated land for cultivation in these or adjacent localities.
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In the not so long run this can result, as 1 foresee it, only in the creation of absentee landowners.
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I shall alter it to say that the whole breed of landlords, particularly absentee landowners in the highlands and islands, are parasites.
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These are the absentee landowners taking the place of the 19th-century nobleman.
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These shareholders are like absentee landowners.
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He later started acting as an agent for absentee landowners.
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Ultimately, roughly 98 percent of the park acreage was bought from absentee landowners.
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They tend to engage agricultural labourers on their fields, and many are absentee landowners.
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Ottoman authorities also initiated private acquisition of large plots of state land offered by the sultan to the absentee landowners (effendis).
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Rowley also started acting as agent for absentee landowners.
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