Definition of "landlordism"

landlordism

noun
usually uncountable, plural landlordisms
1. An economic system under which a few private individuals (landlords) own property, and rent it to tenants.
  Quotations
  What if all the poor people should refuse to pay rent and shelter themselves under the American flag? Landlordism would go crumbling.
  1908, Jack London, The Iron Heel‎, New York: The Macmillan Company
2. A specific variation or implementation of such a system.
  Quotations
  […] including the racialized landlordisms to which it gives rise.
  Reclaiming the land: the resurgence of rural movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros, page 33