landholding

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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From land + holding.

We first traveled through the suburban fringes, the heavily guarded luxurious mansions of the landholding and military elite, the one percent of Guatemala who own ninety-nine percent of the country. — Life Blood, Thomas Hoover
He had begun to manufacture iron out of the bog ores found in the swamps and hummocks of a neighboring district, and, with the tastes of a landholding and slaveholding family, had erected around his furnace a considerable town, his own residence as proprietor conspicuous in the midst. — The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, George Alfred Townsend

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