Definition of "property-owning" []

• Owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "This shows how many people have won or lost, more dramatically than was possible before 1979, under the new rules of the "property-owning democracy"."
• "The social hierarchy, when our Constitution was written, went roughly like this: property-owning free white males; property-less free white males; indentured white males; white females; free non-white males; free non-white females; slaves (who were only counted as three-fifths of a person, for Census reasons); and then Native Americans (who weren't even counted at all)."
• "Britain may once have been close to a property-owning democracy, but it is becoming a property-owning oligarchy."