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smallholder
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ 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 ...
Wiktionary
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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.
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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 ...
WordNet
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n. a person owning or renting a smallholding
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.