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If gender is relevant, the words woman or female should be used instead of "lady" ("my grandmother was the first female doctor in the province"), except if the masculine is "lord" (as in "landlady"). In the case of landlord or landlady, it may be preferable to find an equivalent title with the same meaning, such as proprietor or lessor.
A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, land, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called a tenant (also a lessee or renter). When a juristic person is in this position, the term landlord is used. Other terms include lessor and owner. The term landlady may be used
A landlady is a female landlord. Landlady or The Landlady may also refer to: The Landlady, an 1847 story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "The Landlady" (short story), a 1959 story by Roald Dahl; Bariwali (The Landlady), a 2000 Indian Bengali-language film "Landlady", a 2017 song by U2 from Songs of Experience
A slumlord (or slum landlord) is a slang term for a landlord, generally an absentee landlord with more than one property, who attempts to maximize profit by minimizing spending on property maintenance, and usually rents to tenants that they can intimidate.
A maid, housemaid, or maidservant is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era, domestic service was the second-largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. [1] In developed Western nations, full-time maids are now typically only found in the wealthiest households.
An Ohio landlord has been fined just shy of $200,000 after being accused of sexually harassing a number of female tenants at his properties.. Joseph Pedaline was alleged to have subjected multiple ...
Laird (earlier lard) is the now-standard Scots pronunciation (and phonetic spelling) of the word that is pronounced and spelled in standard English as lord. [3] As can be seen in the Middle English version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, [4] specifically in the Reeve's Tale, Northern Middle English had a where Southern Middle English had o, a difference still found in standard English two and ...
An elderly landlord was arrested by Sampaloc, Manila police yesterday after it was discovered that he recorded naked videos of his tenants while they were in the shower. The alleged Peeping Tom ...