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# landlord

«landlord» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or company that owns a house, flat or room and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a landlord, landlords)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A landlord is a person or company that owns a house, flat or room and rents it to people for money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/#m1)

2) (UK, Ireland) A landlord is the man who runs a pub. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, families who rent pay rent to the landlord every week or month; the landlord should fix problems such as leaks. In maths, rent problems ask how much is paid in total: rent × number of months. In stories, a pub landlord serves drinks. Phrases: the landlord, pay the landlord, pub landlord.

### examples

- We pay our rent to the landlord every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/#x1)
- The landlord came to fix the broken boiler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/#x2)
- If the rent is £800 a month, the landlord gets £9600 a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/#x3)
- The pub landlord rang the bell for last orders. (UK) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/#x4)
- Our landlord said we could keep a cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/#x5)
- The landlord owns three flats on our street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/#x6)
- The landlord agreed to the bargain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/#x7)

### note

Countable noun. A woman can be called a landlady, though «landlord» is often used for anyone. The person who rents is a «tenant». In maths, a year has 12 months, so yearly rent = monthly rent × 12.

### In the corpora

- [Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/2/)
- [A landlord is allowed to raise the rent, usually with warning, and a rise leaves less money for other things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «landlord» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landlord/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.