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tenant farmer
(redirected from Tenant farming)

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tenant farmer
n.
One who farms land owned by another and pays rent in cash or in kind.
tenant farmer
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) 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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Noun1.tenant farmer - a farmer who works land owned by someone elsetenant farmer - a farmer who works land owned by someone else
farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster - a person who operates a farm
tenant - a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
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tenant farmer
n → Pächter(in) m(f)
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Byline: Karen Dent THE future of tenant farming and how it can best be secured is coming under the spotlight this week.
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First signs There is evidence of co-operative tenant farming in Babylon and of burial benefit societies in Greece as early as 3,000 BC.
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