(n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.
(n.) An occupier of land.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a sneak preview of the findings, Howard Reed of Landman Economics, who was commissioned to do the work, told a meeting this week that "most of the gain" from raising the income tax allowance goes to "families who aren't very poor in the first place", and instead increasing tax credits for working low-income families was the "best targeted way of encouraging work among lone parents and workless couples".
(2) Landman Economics – an organisation quoted on the Labour party's own press release to justify Miliband's "make work pay" plan yesterday – has released a report this morning that states : "it is unlikely that the extension of the living wage to all UK employees would result in any substantial aggregate employment losses.
(3) It is low-income working families who are bearing the brunt of benefit cuts: figures from Landman Economics show over £4 in every £5 of benefit cuts are hitting working households.
(4) Through mutualisation, however, Landman says the government could recoup its bailout money via an income stream known as "profit participating deferred shares" in the bank, which made a £232m loss last year, has £22.5bn of assets and operates 70 high street branches.
(5) Analysis firm Landman Economics concluded earlier this year that remutualisation of Northern Rock would deliver a better payback to taxpayers than a sale.
(6) In a boost to a parliamentary campaign calling for Northern Rock to be owned by its members, analysis firm Landman Economics has concluded that, based on the stock performances of similar banks, a flotation or trade sale would not raise sufficient funds to make up the £50bn of public support pumped into Northern Rock.
(7) CPAG's figures were compiled by Landman Economics from data in the Family Resources Survey .
(8) Landman, run by Howard Reed, former chief economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), points out that mutually owned building societies, which dabble in fewer exotic financial instruments, weathered the crisis relatively well and argues that a balance between mutuals and privately owned banks would bode well for economic stability.
(9) As part of its mandate to ensure the impact of policy changes on “protected groups” is taken into account properly, the Equality and Human Rights Commission asked analysis firm Landman Economics and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research to produce just such a “cumulative impact assessment”.
(10) That’s money that could be spent on stopping the crisis in our schools and hospitals and making sure every elderly person gets decent care.” The analysis, conducted for the TUC by consultancy Landman Economics , used tax and benefit modelling to gauge the impact of the rise in insecure work since 2006.
(11) The promoters are the iridiologist J. Landman, the nutritional consultant E. Wannee and the writer R. Jochems.
(12) Research last year by Landman Economics showed that the cost to the exchequer of millions of workers paid less than the living wage – "wage dodging", as the GMB calls it – is £3.23bn a year in social security spending and lower tax receipts.
Landsman
Definition:
(n.) One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.