tenant farming

Farming by a farmer who rents rather than owns the land.

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How to use tenant farming in a sentence

Another example is the prevalence of an un-American type of tenant farming.
State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt | Franklin D. Roosevelt
In districts where tenant-farming is largely in vogue, gray hairs are much fewer.
Society | Henry Kalloch Rowe

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