Definition of "landholding" [landholding]

• A piece of property (land) that is held (owned). (noun)
• The state of owning land. (noun)

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• "Once again, the flexibility of Southeast Asian conceptualizations of polities meant that the ruler's power did not need to be based on rooted infrastructures such as landholding, bureaucracy, or highly institutionalized state organizations."
• "From being co-partners in pre-colonial landholding arrangement, they found themselves denied all access to economic resources, turning them into dependents."
• "And Greenpeace has bought a field there to sell off in small plots (hence my landholding), making it hard for the authorities to arrange compulsory purchase."