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Definition of Slumlords
1. slumlord [n] - See also: slumlord
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slumlords
Literary usage of Slumlords
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Housing of the Working Classes and of the Poor by Moritz Kaufmann (1907)
"CHAPTER V LANDLORDS AND slumlords " POOR, yet making many rich." This, though
not in the sense intended by the writer of the words, applies to the dwellers ..."
2. What Holds Us Together: Social Cohesion in South Africa by David Chidester, Phillip Dexter (2004)
"These include harassment by the police, and other representatives of the state,
discrimination by landlords in the housing sector, where slumlords charge ..."
3. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"... his success to Louis XIV in the following tenus : " I have taken more slumlords
than your majesty has lost soldiers." In 1704, he was opposed to Marl- ..."
4. Britain's Homes: A Study of the Empire's Heart-disease by George Haw (1902)
"The Metropolitan Board of Works, which gave two and a half millions of public
money to slumlords and landlords, never built any dwellings itself, ..."
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