landownerland‧own‧er /ˈlændˌəʊnə $ -ˌoʊnər/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
Collocations
wealthy landowners—landowning adjective: Britain’s landowning aristocracy—landownership noun [uncountable]
CollocationsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► big
someone who owns land, especially a large amount of it: · So we decided to occupy some unused land owned by Don Juan Lopez, the big landowner of our region.· Legally dispossessed, the big landowners have almost everywhere recovered their advantage over the small peasants.· They might no longer be the biggest landowners: more people now worked off the estate than on it.· To make matters worse, the big landowners are conservative and reluctant to accept technological progress.
► great· Sir Leicester Dedlock retains many of the characteristics of a great eighteenth-century landowner.· The Despensers also enriched themselves by harassing the widows and heiresses of great landowners.· Usually enclosure was forced through at the instigation and will of the greater landowners.· Reza Shah also seized land form the clergy and other great landowners.· Serfs were tied to the land and the great landowners did largely as they pleased.· These were not great landowners, and less than half had more than four manors, even fewer parks around their houses.· A single township would contain no more than a fraction of the estates of a nobleman or other great landowner.
► large· The parliament he defended, and whose reform he opposed, was one dominated by large landowners.· Were they ministers, the funeral home owner, the largest landowner?· There is likely to be tension between landlord and tenant, between large landowners and impecunious peasants.· Certainly the Abbey were known to be large landowners in the area.· He became a book-keeper to Dom Joâo José da Câmara, one of the largest landowners at that time.· Even the large landowners living in Madrid prided themselves on their interest in their tenantry.· Elsewhere the chief headmen and large rice-field landowners were invariably Goyigama.· This is because the Congress is dominated by large landowners and the Presidents themselves owned hefty chunks.
► local· In 1750 she married Charles Dalrymple, local landowner and Sheriff-Clerk of Ayrshire, an important post at that time.· His people no longer wandered but worked, when they could, for local landowners.· Should the Council, and perhaps the local landowners, provide large car parks?· But that effort has been stalled; local landowners claim the state improperly took their land.· He was descended from an old family of local landowners, the Leftwich family of Leftwich Hall, Cheshire.· The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area.· Backing also came from leading local landowners.· Sir John was a local landowner who had no love for Darrel at all.
► major· Richard Sackville of Buckhurst, in the business of making shot, was a major landowner with 200 marks a year.· By the early 1960s Leech was a major landowner in the area of what was to be the New Town.· The major landowners were the duchy of York, with which Gloucester had no formal connection, and the earls of Shrewsbury.
► other· In addition it has encouraged other landowners to create 460 acres of new woods.· Reza Shah also seized land form the clergy and other great landowners.· A single township would contain no more than a fraction of the estates of a nobleman or other great landowner.
► private· The incidence of rent and labour strikes and land seizures from private landowners rose during the 1890s.· Basically, if there are no pygmy owls present, a private landowner can turn his critical habitat into a parking lot.· So now the Commission and other countryside conservation groups, have produced a series of guidelines for the private landowners to follow.· With the range of powers available, mineral workings can not, without good cause, be prevented by private landowners.· Timber producers, who make up most of the private landowners welcome that advise.· We also work for private landowners.· These have been mainly Government-owned and public lands, leaving the large private landowners untouched.
► rich· How can we justify rich landowners taking public handouts while making their farmworkers redundant?
► small· It was certainly the only sort acceptable to the small number of landowners who were prepared to embark upon change.· That much is clear, but how did the small landowner of a yardland or less fare in these circumstances?· In this way, a small number of landowners can control the peasantry in rural areas.· Most small landowners like Bhushan have been threatened into leasing their land at an unjust rent.
► wealthy· Grandfather: Nicholai Alexandrovich Romanov, merchant, and one of the wealthiest landowners in Petrograd.· His father was a wealthy landowner with holdings up and down the lower Delaware.· The concern of the wealthy landowner was to continue as long as possible the wealth and social status of the family.· The Tzeltal and Tojolabal in Chiapas were driven into the rocky highlands after their lush flatlands were taken over by wealthy landowners.· Currently, subsidies that were envisaged as a way of protecting farmers in poor areas are being commercially exploited by wealthy landowners.· A narrow élite among the wealthier landowners and bureaucrats was developing tastes and interests which broke the Orthodox mould.· Both of these countries have wealthy white landowners whose procurement of the land was with duress against the indigenous people.· Muhammad Mossadeq came from a wealthy family of landowners who had served a minister to the Cadgers.
wealthy landowners—landowning adjective: Britain’s landowning aristocracy—landownership noun [uncountable]