property-owning

1. 1.

   owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue

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Questions about property-owning

What does property-owning mean?

property-owning means "owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue".

How many syllables are in property-owning?

property-owning has 4 syllables: pro-per-ty-ow-ning. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for property-owning?

Close synonyms include propertied. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is property-owning a common word?

property-owning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.