0 a person or organization that owns a building or an area of land and is paid by other people for the use of it -- 房东;地主
The landlord had promised to redecorate the bedrooms before we moved in. 房东许诺在我们搬进去之前会把卧室重新装修一番。
Housing associations are the biggest landlords in this area. 住房协会是本地区最大的房东。
1 a man who is in charge of a pub or bar -- 酒吧老板,酒馆老板
The tenants were planning to sue their landlords for fair returns on the cotton crop.
The beneficiaries are overwhelmingly large landlords and industrial capital.
The identification of these petty landlords, though at times a tortuous process, is not impossible; their tenants are another matter.
Cultivators included both well-off landlords and their much poorer tenants.
In such ways the landlords were thought to be responsible for failing to give tenants 'a fair field' in their struggle against foreign competition.
The provision of capital was divided between landlords and tenants.
Improvement on the ground involved other social groups than the landlords and their agents.
Inhabitation of a portion of land was to be more emphatically on the landlord's terms.