Definition of "landlord" []

• One that owns and rents land, buildings, or dwelling units. (noun)
• A man who runs a rooming house or an inn; an innkeeper. (noun)

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• "It's advertised with the term "landlord is flexible", which I later learn means that I am willing to offer it furnished or part-furnished."
• "The landlord appeared; not a gentleman, not a rich man, as the term landlord might denote, but a stout, square, stubbed, thick-limbed, grey-eyed man, who seemed to have come smoking hot from hard labour."
• "But Johnston knows her landlord is already charging her less than the going rate for similar flats, and has been told there is no prospect of the rent being reduced."