Holding or possessing landed estates; pertaining to landowners: as, the land-owning class.

noun. The owning of land.

adjective. Describing one, or a group, that owns real estate (i.e. land).

adjective. Of or pertaining to the ownership of land.

"A key factor enabling China's transformation "China Population Balance Tilts Urban," World News, Jan. 18 is the ability of landowning local governments to simply grab land instead of transferring ownership by means of a sales contract."

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