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tenant farmer

noun

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

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

First recorded in 1855–60

There has also been a very marked tendency to enlarge the rights and the authority of the tenant farmer.

In 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.

No tenant farmer can vote against his landlord in obedience to his conscience without the risk of ruining his family.

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