landholding
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[edit]landholding (plural landholdings)
- A piece of property (land) that is held (owned).
- Synonym: landhold
- Hyponym: smallholding
- 1990, Eduard B. Vermeer, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:
- Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened. For instance, the annual surtaxes of Buddhist temples' landholdings of Hsia-p'u county which had amounted to 515 taels in the late Ming dropped to 309 taels after Ch'ien-lung's edict, and to 229 taels soon afterwards.
- The state or practice of owning land.
- Hyponym: smallholding
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[edit]piece of property that is held
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state of owning land
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