freeholder
freeholder — noun
- freeholdersingular
- freeholdersplural
1. a person who has full and permanent legal ownership of a house, flat, or area of
a person who has full and permanent legal ownership of a house, flat, or area of land, rather than renting it or holding it for a fixed number of years
As the freeholder of the building, Tamar pays for repairs to the roof.
collocation: the freeholder of + property
Christopher wrote to the freeholder to ask for a longer lease on his flat.
pattern: leaseholder writes to the freeholder
The freeholder agreed to let the residents form a garden committee.
Disputes over the broken lift went to the freeholder, not the tenants.
After Joaquín bought the cottage outright, he became its freeholder.
- owner
general term; 'freeholder' specifies full permanent ownership in UK property law
- landlord
someone who rents property to tenants; a landlord may or may not be the freeholder
- proprietor
formal term for an owner, often of a business or premises rather than purely land
- leaseholder
someone who holds property under a lease for a fixed period, not outright
- tenant
someone renting the property from a landlord, with no ownership interest
文法句型
the freeholder of [property]
用法筆記
Mainly British English; the term contrasts with 'leaseholder', who only rents the property for a set period. Subject is usually an individual or company that legally owns the land or building.