Meanings
nounlandownership (countable and uncountable, plural landownerships)
plural landownerships
- countableuncountableThe state or position of landowner.
The populists want Russia to enjoy the benefits of industrial development without its consequences in the form of rural proletarianization, the concentration of landownership, and the decline of the village commune.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 335 - countableuncountableThe land belonging to a landowner; a smallholding.
Origin
Translations
German Grundbesitz, Landbesitz
- Grundbesitzstate of owning land
- Landbesitzstate of owning land
- Grundbesitzland belonging to a landowner
- Landbesitzland belonging to a landowner
Polish własność gruntu, posiadłość ziemska
- własność gruntustate of owning land
- posiadłość ziemskaland belonging to a landowner
Russian землевладе́ние
- землевладе́ние (zemlevladénije)state of owning land
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