land agent

noun5

1. •
   (UK) A professional employed to manage an estate; steward or estate manager.

   • It was a relationship quite different from that of the late-eighteenth-century steward who was evolving into the salaried land agent so characteristic of the nineteenth century. — 1992
2. •
   A government official responsible for managing public lands.

   • He found an old law providing for sale of unused public lands at the rate of $1.25 an acre and costs, and somehow convinced the federal land agent that this entitled him to buy all the fort property. — 1991
3. •
   (historical) A person employed to manage the legal and practical aspects of developing a land grant.
4. •
   A real estate broker, especially one who specializes in the buying and selling of farms or undeveloped land.

   • The importance of appearing in this Directory is so evident to every land agent and attorney that we will discuss the matter no further. — 1886
5. •
   (US) An employee of an oil or mining company who negotiates with landowners for rights to extract oil or minerals from their property.

   • On January 10, 1951, a land agent of the plaintiff called at the home of the defendants and requested of Mrs. Bancroft permission to enter' upon the land to make a survey for location of a pipe line. — 1950