landlord

noun

1. A person that leases real property; a lessor.

   “Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie, Then to haue this difference in degrees: The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees. So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]”

2. (British)The owner or manager of a public house.

   “When asked to explain why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar windows.”

3. (slang, with-definite-article)A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.

   “the lurking presence of “The Landlord””

verb

1. (rare, transitive)To lease real property; to act as a lessor.

   “All kinds of "Dulishevskis" were "landlording" in Tisza's time, and have continued under the Communists.”

   “cannot admit realization of realities without admitting a changed view of the world she landlords.”

   “Middlemen had fairly steady relationships with Meridian; the same people were landlording houses in all the places where Meridian was assembling land: West St Jamestown, Homewood and Suffolk, Dundas and Sherbourne, George Street.”

   “I can recall many pubs in Gosport which were 'landlorded' by retired Navy personnel and which featured ephemera such as Recruiting Posters, uplifting propoganda.”

   “He floated through these streets scattered with rubbish, beggars, and thieves as if he landlorded the entire city, owning not only the buildings and the stores but the people themselves.”