landlordism

plural landlordisms

1. uncountableusuallyAn economic system under which a few private individuals (landlords) own property, and rent it to tenants.

   What if all the poor people should refuse to pay rent and shelter themselves under the American flag? Landlordism would go crumbling.

   1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC

2. uncountableusuallyA specific variation or implementation of such a system.

   […] including the racialized landlordisms to which it gives rise.

   Reclaiming the land: the resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros, page 33

3. uncountableusuallyThe actions and behavior of a landlord.

   Yet his account also implies the carelessness of his landlordism before now and the invisibility to him of those beneath his social horizon (even if they are paying him rent).

   2014, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?, page 196