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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smallholding
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Farming, especially mixed smallholding, needs to be viewed in its interlocking whole.
▪ He said that there would be preference funding for smallholdings.
▪ Our cottage stood in a field at the opposite end of the village from the smallholding the Guérigny family used to work.
▪ Some of the farms have been split up into smallholdings.
▪ Some villagers, those with capital, established rubber smallholdings, or grew other crops for the market.
▪ Steve and Gillian out of New Order live on some kind of smallholding.
▪ The smallholding you've just signed for?
Wiktionary
smallholding

alt. 1 (context British English) A piece of land, smaller than a farm, used for the cultivation of vegetables or the breeding of animals 2 (context American English) A small plantation or land with a small number of slave (generally 19 or less). Contrasted with ''middling plantation'' (20-49 slaves) and ''large plantation'' (50+ and owned by planter). n. 1 (context British English) A piece of land, smaller than a farm, used for the cultivation of vegetables or the breeding of animals 2 (context American English) A small plantation or land with a small number of slave (generally 19 or less). Contrasted with ''middling plantation'' (20-49 slaves) and ''large plantation'' (50+ and owned by planter).

WordNet
smallholding

n. a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation

Wikipedia
Smallholding

A smallholding is a small farm. In third world countries, smallholdings are usually farms supporting a single family with a mixture of cash crops and subsistence farming. As a country becomes more affluent and farming practices become more efficient, smallholdings may persist as a legacy of historical land ownership practices. In more affluent societies, smallholdings may be valued primarily for the rural lifestyle that they provide for the owners, who often do not earn their livelihood from the farm. There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farms in the world, supporting almost 2 billion people. Today some companies try to include smallholdings into their value chain, providing seed, feed or fertilizer to improve production. Some say that this model shows benefits for both parties.

Usage examples of "smallholding".

He kept a few dairy cows on a smallholding on the edge of the town and augmented his income by operating a retail round among the citizens of Darrowby.

I could see, none of the smallholdings outside the town had been attacked.

There were other smallholdings as wellfishing camps on a nearby baybut these were occupied only in summer.

Before that, however, I would come to any number of smallholdings and settlements along the coast, and inland there were scores of villas and larger estates where I might get help.

Gaius Gracchus legislated to try to curtail that, and to stop the smallholdings of Italy becoming the prey of big-time speculating graziers!

And how you do love to see the smallholdings fall into your grasp because the men who ought to be home running them are dying on some foreign field through sheer aristocratic greed and carelessness!

He was seated at a table of lesser nobility from the smallholdings of Buck and Farrow.

Now these men had almost ceased to exist, and their smallholdings had come into the ownership of men in the Senate or the top ranks of knight-businessmen.

Houses and smallholdings had imperceptibly given way to scrubby thorn brush in sandy valleys that scraped itself thin at each hilltop in a vain attempt to hide the rock beneath.

Now the councilors owned much more, and what had been a substantial farm if not an estate for the magistrate would shrink to a smallholding as soon as the new administration produced a cadastral survey.

His family were all farm labourers, good for nothing, but, God knows how, he bettered himself and runs a smallholding in the village.

The Sea-Maiden landed at Norfolk in Virginia, and Essie’s indenture was bought by a “small planter,” a tobacco farmer named John Richardson, for his wife had died of the childbirth fever a week after giving birth to his daughter, and he had need of a wet nurse and a maid of all work upon his smallholding.

There were few people on the road-an occasional man going off to his precipitous smallholding on the flank of a hill, his three-foot steel cutlass dangling from his right hand, chewing at his breakfast, a foot of raw sugar cane held in his left, or a woman sauntering up the road with a covered basket of fruit or vegetables for Stony Hill market, her shoes on her head, to be donned when she got near the village.

Then suddenly he gave up his job and the tied cottage that went with it and bought up a smallholding just on the edge of the village, opposite the war memorial, you might have noticed it as you drove in?