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runholders

runholders is the plural of runholder.

Meaning of runholder

Noun

runholder (plural runholders)

  1. (New Zealand) A person who leases or owns a run (“rural landholding for farming”), especially one for raising sheep.
    • Edward Stafford […] was a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry and had arrived in Nelson in 1843 to become a runholder.2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 193

Questions about runholders

What is runholders the plural of?
Runholders is the plural of runholder.

Words near runholders in the dictionary

  1. rungs
  2. rungu
  3. rungus
  4. Rungwa
  5. runholder
  6. runholders
  7. runholding
  8. runholdings
  9. runic
  10. runic divination
  11. runically

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