landowner
Example Sentences
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The BBC was unable to contact the landowner but contacted one of the people believed to be using the Over site.
From BBC
Baroness Twycross, Culture Minister, said: "Thanks to the finders, landowners, museums and everyone involved in the treasure process, we have the rare opportunity to display these treasures to educate and inspire future generations to come."
From BBC
But the company and other landowners in the area will now face limits under a decision by state officials to impose regulation.
From Los Angeles Times
The fracking boom of the early 2010s in Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota and Colorado brought with it tens of thousands of oil-field jobs and turned landowners into overnight millionaires.
One man’s biographical note stands out: that of Sheikh Sarkar, the patriarch of a clan that provides the “hereditary muscle” for a family of Punjabi landowners.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.