tenant farmer

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noun

a person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce.

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Origin of tenant farmer

First recorded in 1855–60

Words nearby tenant farmer

tena korua, tena koutou, tenancy, tenancy in common, tenant, tenant farmer, tenant farming, tenant in chief, tenant in common, tenantry, tenants association

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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|Various
In speaking of the tenant-farmers he said, 'The tenant-farmer will under free trade be an independent man.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850|Various
The different degrees were those of slave, freedman, tenant-farmer and great landowner.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7|Various
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. Beers

No 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

tenant farmer

noun

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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tenant farmer

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