The house has an absentee landlord, who visits the property once a year.
这栋房子的房主不在这儿住,一年过来一次。
原声例句
傲骨贤妻 第6季
See if we can set her up as an absentee landlord.
看看我们能不能把她变成外居地主。
里奇大叔带你欧洲行
A history of absentee landlords dating all the way back to the Romans left Sicily mired in a persistent poverty.
自罗马人以来,缺席地主的历史使西西里岛陷入了持续的贫困之中。
世界史 Crash Course
Often these Grand Blancs were absentee landlords who would just rather stay in France and let their agents do, you know, the actual brutality.
通常这些 Grand Blancs 是不在场的地主,他们宁愿留在法国,让他们的代理人做,你知道的,真正的暴行。
美国历史
Tillers of the soil by necessity, they were forced to pay enormous tributes to absentee landlords in England whose claim to their estates rested upon the title of conquest and confiscation.
Absentee landlord is an economic term for a person who owns and rents out a profit-earning property, but does not live within the property's local economic region. The term "absentee ownership" was popularised by economist Thorstein Veblen's book of the same name, Absentee ownership.