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land agent

noun

  1. a person or firm engaged at a commission to obtain grants of public lands or to negotiate the buying and selling of private lands between two or more parties.
  2. a government official in charge of the management of public lands.
  3. British. the steward of an estate.


land agent

noun

  1. a person who administers a landed estate and its tenancies
  2. a person who acts as an agent for the sale of land
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • land agency, noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of land agent1

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30
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Barnard, however, was a squatter on a rancho owned by oil baron Thomas Scott, whose land agent Thomas Bard disliked the name and sought to build a wharf on Point Hueneme.

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Redding, its chief population center, was named for a land agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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The company denied accusations of environmental racism that emerged after a Byhalia Connection land agent said during a community meeting that the developers “took, basically, a point of least resistance” in choosing the pipeline’s path.

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The company has denied accusations of environmental racism that emerged after a Byhalia land agent said during a community meeting that the developers “took, basically, a point of least resistance” in choosing the pipeline’s path.

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Bat Masterson and a land agent make a Kansas cow town safe for wheat farmers.

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