A person who owns or manages a sheep station or cattle station.
he was a soldier who became a wealthy runholder
Example sentencesExamples
- With help from the runholder and his packhorses, they went up the West Matukituki.
- If the price of wool should drop many of these runholders will be in serious financial difficulties.
- He was a southern runholder and a Liberal politician.
- They were a good type of sheep for the runholders who depended on wool for their income.
- They were not welcomed by their runholder neighbours at first - relationships were testy at best.
- The church was built in memory of the pioneer runholders of the Mackenzie area.
- He got all his numerical facts wrong and then blamed the runholders for giving him dodgy data.
- Runholders had received collectively 58 per cent of the reformed pastoral estate as freehold.
- Their house became a social centre for the runholders.
- These sturdy people are the fabric of any provincial town - runholders, small farmers, merchants and artisans.