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absentee ownership |
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absentee ownership, system under which a person (or a corporation) controls and derives income from land in a region where he does not reside. Abuses existed in absenteeism in pre-Revolutionary France, in 19th-century Ireland, in E and SE Europe before World War I, and in some oil-producing nations of the Middle East as late as the second half of the 20th cent. Revolution and reform have abolished or greatly reduced the amount of absentee control throughout the world. In the United States the term has been applied to the concentration of economic power through various corporate devices. Chain stores and branch banking are sometimes classified as types of absentee ownership. absentee ownershipOwnership of land by those who do not live on it but who enjoy income from it. Criticized for centuries as an economic injustice, absentee ownership was a feature of pre-Revolutionary France and English rule of Ireland. Ending the practice continues to be a goal of land reform programs in many developing countries. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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accused squatters of being "greedy, lawless land grabbers who had
no respect for law, order, absentee ownership of property, and Indian
rights. , Absentee Ownership And Business Enterprise In Recent
Times: The Case of America, Kelley, New York, 1923. As jittery absentee ownership acts as if it needs to pay their
players with food stamps, Taylor has bigger problems. |
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