leaseholder

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Australia's defence minister Richard Marles said Thursday that Canberra was "disappointed" the Chinese leaseholder of the strategic Darwin Port was challenging efforts to return it to local ownership.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

When construction of housing long planned for the campus has been delayed by funding hurdles, he asked why couldn’t leaseholder funds be used to pay for new construction?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

Under the leasehold system, third-party landlords known as freeholders own the building and a leaseholder buys the right to occupy a flat within it for a fixed time period.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2025

If they exceed the estimate, they can get the shortfall from a leaseholder using something called a "balancing charge".

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024

The free tenant was neither a yearly tenant, nor a leaseholder.

From The Coming of the Friars by Jessopp, Augustus