🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

propriétaire privé

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pʁopʁijatɛʁ pʁive

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Private Landlord/ˈpraɪ.vət ˈlænd.lɔːrd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Nous louons notre appartement directement à un propriétaire privé."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An individual person who owns residential property and rents it out directly to tenants, as opposed to a housing corporation, agency, or the government.

    "Our private landlord is very responsive whenever something in the apartment needs to be repaired."
  2. 2

    A private property owner managing their own real estate investments and lease agreements independently.

    "The new housing regulations have introduced stricter compliance requirements for private landlords across the city."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'private', derived from Latin 'privatus' meaning set apart or personal, and 'landlord', a compound from Old English 'land' and 'hlaford' meaning lord or master of the land. Historically emerging during the expansion of urban real estate markets, it differentiates individual property owners from corporate housing providers or public housing authorities.

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