land agent
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.67 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person employed to manage the legal and practical aspects of developing a land grant.
noun
A real estate broker, especially one who specializes in the buying and selling of farms or undeveloped land.
noun
A government official responsible for managing public lands.
noun
An employee of an oil or mining company who negotiates with landowners for rights to extract oil or minerals from their property.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "The duties of an Irish land agent comprise a great deal of office work, drawing up agreements with tenants, receiving rent, superintending agricultural and all landlords' improvements, sitting as magistrate and representing the landlord when the latter is absent at poor-law meetings, road sessions, and on grand juries."
- "It was a relationship quite different from that of the late-eighteenth-century steward who was evolving into the salaried land agent so characteristic of the nineteenth century."
- "However a study of the cautious development of land law will also demonstrate the evolution of the modern estate manager's role through that of steward and then land agent, particularly well summarised in F.M.L. Thompson's Chartered Surveyors - The Growth of a Profession."
- "I can truly say its prevention has been the great difficulty of my life as a land agent. The collection of rent is almost always easy on a well-managed estate ; but the prevention of subdivision is almost always difficult."
- "He held the office as resident land agent of the Holland Land Company for twenty-one years. In this capacity he laid out the city of New Amsterdam, now Buffalo, gave its streets the jaw-breaking names of the Dutch proprietors and made it a flourishing town."
- "As land agent, he had observed the successful German settlement at Muenster, thirty-eight miles north, and the arrival of a French-Canadian group who took up homesteads in 1904 at St. Brieux, in the same area."