Definition of Property-owning

1. Adjective. Owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue.

Exact synonyms: Propertied
Similar to: Upper-class

Lexicographical Neighbors of Property-owning

properest
properidine
properispome
properispomenon
properispomenons
properispomes
properly
properly speaking
properness
propernesses
propers
propertie
propertied
properties
property
property-owning (current term)
property ladder
property law
property line
property man
property master
property owner
property right
property rights
property settlement
property tax
propertyless
propfan
propfans

Literary usage of Property-owning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Labor Year Book by Dept. of Labor Research, Rand School of Social Science (1918)
"CANADA Quebec: Municipal suffrage granted to property-owning widows and spinsters, ... Nova Scotia: Municipal suffrage granted to all property-owning women, ..."

2. The Laborer and the Capitalist by Freeman Otis Willey (1897)
"many property-owning families do the deceased females indicate ? In other words, why is not a female property owner as likely to indicate a property-owning ..."

3. The Laborer and the Capitalist by Freeman Otis Willey (1896)
"many property-owning families do the deceased females indicate ? In other words, why is not a female property owner as likely to indicate a property-owning ..."

4. The American Political Science Review (1918)
"In 1884 Quebec and Ontario granted municipal suffrage to property owning widows and spinsters, and in Ontario they were made eligible to sit on school ..."

5. The Woman Suffrage Year Book, 1917 by Martha G. Stapler (1917)
"1909 Municipal suffrage granted to property-owning widows and spinsters 1884 ... to all property-owning women, except those whose husbands are voters 1886 ..."

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