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slumlord

[ sluhm-lawrd ]

noun

  1. a landlord who owns slum buildings, especially one who fails to maintain or improve the buildings and charges tenants exorbitant rents.


slumlord

/ ˈslʌmˌlɔːd /

noun

  1. informal.
    an absentee landlord of slum property, esp one who profiteers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slumlord1

First recorded in 1950–55; slum + lord
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Example Sentences

He is a slumlord collecting rent from poor tenants for his abusive father.

From Salon

"In Colorado, they're so crazy they're taking over sections of the state," he falsely claimed, citing a bogus viral story about Venezuelan gangs taking over an apartment complex in Aurora, a claim denied by police, the city's Republican mayor and residents, who say the claim was spread by a slumlord to deflect blame for poor conditions at their property.

From Salon

The tenants accused Aslanian of being a slumlord, harrassing and threatening them in his attempts to empty the apartments.

Whitney is the heiress to her parents’ slumlord fortune, a fact she pretends to distance herself from but can’t quite.

Whitney sees it as a brand building exercise, a chance to show how good she is, a way of assuaging her guilt over her slumlord parents’ financial support.

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