A property owner who rents property to a tenant. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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a person or organization that owns land or buildings:
• The newspaper is negotiating with its landlord to reduce its rent.
• The government has introduced the landlord and tenant legislation that it promised.
ˌabsentee ˈlandlord PROPERTY
the owner of land or a building who does not live there:
• Legislation was introduced to take land from absentee landlords and give it to peasants.
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landlord UK US /ˈlændlɔːd/ noun [C]
► PROPERTY a person or organization that owns a room, building, or piece of land that someone else pays rent to use: »
Landlords have legal obligations that cannot be avoided by leaving them out of the tenancy agreement.
► UK COMMERCE a man who owns or manages a pub, bar, or small hotel: »
A landlord who has rescued his pub from being closed has said the crisis in the industry can't all be blamed on large pub companies.
Financial and business terms. 2012.