Zamindar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An official in precolonial India assigned to collect the land taxes of his district.
  • n. A landholder in British colonial India responsible for collecting and paying to the government the taxes on the land under his jurisdiction.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a landowner, especially on the Indian subcontinent, one paying tax directly to the British government
  • n. an official tax-collector
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as zemindar.
    • Word Usage
    ""zamindar" (a collector of land taxes or revenues)."
    Variant
    zemindar   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    landowner   
     
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