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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smallholder
noun
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▪ At the other extreme were open villages where the land was divided among a large number of freeholders and smallholders.
▪ In the countryside of North Armagh the smallholder was dominant and most of the smallholders were handloom weavers.
▪ Irrigation projects provide water for large commercial farms, not smallholders.
▪ Much as you might like to, no smallholder can escape the clerical and book-keeping side of the business.
▪ Possibly the most variable factor is you, the smallholder.
▪ Social change, therefore, was unlikely to come from the top and the peasantry were badly educated and impoverished smallholders.
▪ The former system could still be used by a smallholder on suitable land, the latter would be disastrous.
Wiktionary
smallholder

n. 1 (context British English) A person who owns or runs a smallholding. 2 (context American English) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.

WordNet
smallholder

n. a person owning or renting a smallholding

Wikipedia
Smallholder (magazine)

Founded in 1910 for small farmers, allotment holders and gardeners, Smallholder magazine is published monthly by Packet Newspapers in Falmouth, Cornwall. It is a national UK magazine. Smallholder has been edited by journalist Graham Smith since March 2013.

Usage examples of "smallholder".

Besides the shipwright's kit, I am equipped with the auberge's survival gear (very impressive) and what they call a Smallholder Unit, tools and decamole appliances for setting up light housekeeping on a subsistence farm, together with a few packets of seeds and a large fleck library with a raft of "how-to" books on every subject from animal husbandry to zymurgy.

They sometimes held sewing circles and quilting bees after a family had lost its belongings to fire or when one of the river-floods came every six or eight years and drowned the smallholders closest to Devar-Tete Whye.

It would be a great mistake to start by victimizing the smallholder class, for instance.