Landlord meaning

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The definition of a landlord is a person who rents land, rooms, apartments or houses to others.

An example of a landlord is the person who owns the house you live in and who you pay rent to every month.

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One that owns and rents land, buildings, or dwelling units.
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A man who runs a rooming house or an inn; an innkeeper.
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A person, company, etc. that rents or leases land, houses, apartments, etc. to others.
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A man who rents rooms to lodgers.
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A man who operates a pub.
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The lessor of real property.
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A person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo.
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(chiefly UK) The owner or manager of a public house.
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(surfing, slang, with “the”) A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
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Sentence Examples

  • He was sometimes known as the "Landlord of New York."

  • If the tenant paid his rent, the landlord could not forbid subletting.

  • Was it merely coincidence that her lease would be up next Friday and the landlord was raising the rent?

  • Rights which the landlord desires to retain over the lands let are excepted or reserved.

  • - Reference may be made, in conclusion, to a few modern statutes which have affected the law of landlord and tenant.

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