tenant farmer

noun

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: a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of produce

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Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers were plotting an insurrection. — Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made By History, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025 The new bill in parliament aims to claw back some of that land by expanding community ownership and giving more power to tenant farmers and smaller landholders. — Robert Ormerod, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025 Herb continued to learn his trade as a tenant farmer on several different properties in Kane County. — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025 These parcels were given to native Hawaiian tenant farmers in 1850 and were considered sacred to the generations who had owned them since. — Joyce Chen, Architectural Digest, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tenant farmer

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1748, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tenant farmer was in 1748

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tenant farmer

noun
: a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of produce

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