What's the difference between landowner and zamindar?
Landowner
Definition:
(n.) An owner of land.
Example Sentences:
(1) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(2) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
(3) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
(4) The bill, voted through a panel of the house energy and power subcommittee, would compel Obama to over-rule demands for a further review of the project from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and disregard local opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline from landowners along its 1,700-mile route.
(5) Tina Louise Rothery, 54, had been ordered to pay £55,342 of fees to the British company and a group of landowners, or face a 14-day prison sentence, after she sought to stop an injunction that would prevent protesters from gathering on a stretch of land being considered for shale gas exploration.
(6) But farmers and landowners have expressed concern about the impact of the species on rural businesses after reports of "significant impacts on agricultural land" in areas of Tayside where a colony of around 150 beavers has become established .
(7) Banda's predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika made himself the country's biggest landowner, built a vast mansion with suitcases of cash stashed under the bed, went on two-week-long holidays to Macau and appointed his brother as foreign minister.
(8) These changes are vital to kick starting shale and make sure it’s not delayed by one single landowner.
(9) "Consumers of the powdered horn in Asia risk becoming seriously ill from ingesting a so-called medicinal product, which is now contaminated with a non-lethal chemical package," said Andrew Parker, chief executive of the Sabi Sand Wildtuin Association, a group of private landowners in Mpumalanga province.
(10) Brian Jorde, a lawyer for the three Nebraska landowners who sued to block the pipeline’s route, said the matter was far from settled – although he did not say whether he would seek other legal avenues.
(11) Didier Enrique “Electric” Ramirez was apprehended for his alleged role in the killing of Nelson García , 39, who was shot dead earlier this month by at least two assailants following a dispute with local landowners, authorities said in a statement.
(12) While shopping centres, stations, airports and many other places are generally private land, whizzing around on a hoverboard requires the permission of the landowner.
(13) There were signs in September 2012 that Seeds of the Forest was provoking fierce opposition from loggers and big landowners, particularly when it announced plans to incorporate, legally, a further 14,000 hectares (34,500 acres) of public forest.
(14) At USDA, we're working closely with our nation's farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to help them manage the negative impacts of climate change, reduce their energy costs, and grow the bioeconomy to create jobs in rural America."
(15) We are ready to work with landowners and farmers to look after farmland wildlife.” Harper argues that the RSPB has been misunderstood, pointing out that it has always been neutral on the ethics of shooting birds.
(16) Environmental campaigners have been using landowners' rights to halt fracking projects.
(17) Many landowners interested in deploying the badger vaccine have approached their local Wildlife Trust for advice, as the information is not available centrally.
(18) We're seeing farmers, landowners, parents, health workers, church groups expressing interest and concern.
(19) Marcus Adams, another of the five landowners who formed the legal blockade around the Celtique site, said: "It's encouraging to see Celtique have scaled back their drilling plans at least for now, but we won't give up the fight until they've officially abandoned their ambition to frack in the heart of this beautiful national park.
(20) Britain's 200,000 farmers and landowners, who receive tens of billions of pounds of European subsidies for owning land and growing food, will escape most of the cuts because European common agricultural policy payments are made directly from Brussels.
Zamindar
Definition:
(n.) A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue.