landlordism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]landlordism (usually uncountable, plural landlordisms)
- An economic system under which a few private individuals (landlords) own property, and rent it to tenants.
- 1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
- What if all the poor people should refuse to pay rent and shelter themselves under the American flag? Landlordism would go crumbling.
- A specific variation or implementation of such a system.
- Reclaiming the land: the resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros, page 33:
- […] including the racialized landlordisms to which it gives rise.
- Reclaiming the land: the resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros, page 33:
- The actions and behavior of a landlord.
- 2014, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?, page 196:
- Yet his account also implies the carelessness of his landlordism before now and the invisibility to him of those beneath his social horizon (even if they are paying him rent).