(n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
(n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) Last week, Theresa May announced that, as part of her immigration bill , private landlords will be required, under the threat of a £3,000 fine, to ensure that "illegal immigrants" are not given access to their properties.
(3) In 2009, the Office of Fair Trading successfully sued Foxtons for extracting “unfair” charges from landlords.
(4) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(5) It feels to landlords as though the state is interfering with their personal incomes – rather than regulating what is actually a two-way business with customers that deserve protection.
(6) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
(7) The GMB union said that there was a risk that vulnerable people could be made homeless, but in the event of insolvency, Southern Cross's 31,000 homes would be run by local authorities or landlords on behalf of an administrator.
(8) They raised their issues with the council in 2012 and now the landlord is trying to get them evicted.
(9) New laws may be needed to force private landlords to insulate and upgrade rented homes, the report says.
(10) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
(11) It is a complex action, as there are a number of landlords covering private apartments and affordable shared-ownership flats.
(12) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
(13) Landlords are now getting an average yield of 5.3%, up from 5.2% in August, LSL says.
(14) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
(15) It is critical that landlords and government think deeply about the evident anxiety tenants have about receiving their rent directly,” the report warns.
(16) The landlord never cashed it and the three became friends.
(17) But landlords often put your rent up massively at the end of your lease, meaning you have to move every two years."
(18) Roger Harding, Shelter’s director of communications, policy and campaigns, said: “It beggars belief that a landlord can evict a family simply because they have three children, and the fact that this one has is yet another sign of our broken rental market.
(19) Our How to Rent guide helps tenants know their rights and responsibilities, and letting agents are now required to belong to a redress scheme so landlords and tenants have somewhere to go if they get a raw deal.” “This government has kept strong protections to guard families against the threat of homelessness.
(20) We will also require them to meet their basic responsibilities as landlords, cracking down on those who rent out dangerous, dirty and overcrowded properties.
Publican
Definition:
(n.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.
(n.) The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) We know from both Heineken’s words and actions that they will give preference to their own products across their estate, and this is simply not fair for brewers, publicans or consumers.
(2) I’ve been involved with meeting a whole range of beer buyers, meeting politicians and other dignitaries, including Prince Charles, to speaking to publicans and doing tastings in big and small stores.
(3) His own working-class childhood, as the son of a publican in the north-west, had the library for books and the radio for drama: "We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy.
(4) Stacey was a young, attractive woman and one of the show’s stars.” Publican Steve McDonald in Coronation Street is also a major character who everyone likes and can relate to and his struggle with depression has attracted a positive response on social media.
(5) The congregations who come for these, the real purposes of the building, should remember that Jesus talked to publicans and tax collectors.
(6) Both men were publicans as well as hangmen, but had very different personalities.
(7) That would seem to be one conclusion to draw from a new study into wellbeing and public policy, which found that employees reporting greatest job satisfaction were vicars, while publicans – who on average earn almost £5,000 a year more – were the least happy in their work.
(8) So what can be done to improve the wellbeing of the British publican?
(9) A recent survey by pub trade magazine the Publican's Morning Advertiser (PMA) revealed that 63% of licensees are overweight and unhappy about it, and more than half admitted to drinking more than the recommended 21 units of alcohol a week.
(10) Publican John Doyle said: "I've worked my arse off under your regime and I'm going to go bankrupt again for a second time around."
(11) The ad being run by the Premier League warns publicans that this ruling has clarified its right to pursue unauthorised broadcasters.
(12) On 3 February the UK court delivered its judgment on an ECJ ruling relating to a company called QC Leisure, a provider of Greek and Arabic decoder cards to publicans in the UK.
(13) And then, 20 minutes later, he sent this: After meeting Brown, the angry publican – John Doyle – now says he will back Labour, not the Lib Dems.
(14) Many of the associations found were consistent with those that have been described for men, with high mortality ratios for cirrhosis in barmaids and publicans, for suicide in the medical and allied professions, and for respiratory disease in textile workers.
(15) "Should Mrs Murphy, or any other publican, use European Economic Area foreign satellite systems to show Premier League football on their premises without our authority and outside the scope of our authorisation, they make themselves liable for us to take action against them in both the civil and criminal courts," the Premier League spokesman.
(16) Unlike the publicans, landlords, barmaids, barmen, sommeliers, wine waiters, even the mixologists, who kindly make us drunk.
(17) Business is down 10% in Scottish pubs since the smoking ban went into effect in March, a poll of publicans says.
(18) But throw in the context in which publicans are working, and it starts to look decidedly grim.
(19) The sanguine Premier League is already noting that it will be easy to stop publicans using its footage without permission by ensuring that its logo is on screen all the time, or its theme music played every time a replay is aired.
(20) Rob Willock, PMA editor, compares publicans to clergy, the profession that in last week's survey took the top spot.