(landladies)
1.
Someone’s ~ is the woman who allows them to live or work in a building which she owns, in return for rent.
We had been made homeless by our ~.
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2.
The ~ of a pub is the woman who owns or runs it, or the wife of the man who owns or runs it. (BRIT)
...Bet, the ~ of the Rovers Return.
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