tenant farmer
a person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce.
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How to use tenant farmer in a sentence
There has also been a very marked tendency to enlarge the rights and the authority of the tenant farmer.
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 | VariousIn speaking of the tenant-farmers he said, 'The tenant-farmer will under free trade be an independent man.
The different degrees were those of slave, freedman, tenant-farmer and great landowner.
His father was a hard-headed, God-fearing tenant farmer, whose life and that of his sons was a harsh struggle with poverty.
From Chaucer to Tennyson | Henry A. BeersNo tenant farmer can vote against his landlord in obedience to his conscience without the risk of ruining his family.
The Land-War In Ireland (1870) | James Godkin
British Dictionary definitions for tenant farmer
a person who farms land rented from another, the rent usually taking the form of part of the crops grown or livestock reared
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