Runholder

//ˈɹʌnhəʊldə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who leases or owns a run (“rural landholding for farming”), especially one for raising sheep. New-Zealand

    "Edward Stafford […] was a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry and had arrived in Nelson in 1843 to become a runholder."

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"Edward Stafford […] was a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry and had arrived in Nelson in 1843 to become a runholder."

Etymology

From run (“rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep”) + holder. Run (noun) is derived from run (“(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) to allow (cattle, sheep, etc.) to graze and move freely on land; to raise (livestock)”, verb).

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