runholder

名词 n.
/ˈɹʌnhəʊldə/    /ˈɹʌnˌhoʊldəɹ/|/ˈɹanhɐʉldə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

runholders plural

词源

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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