tenant farmer
nounDefinition of tenant farmer
: a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of produce
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Poor white tenant farmers battle fierce odds to make a living on a Texas plot. — Los Angeles Times, "Movies on TV this week Sept. 1 - 7, 2019: John Wayne in ‘The Searchers’ and more," 30 Aug. 2019 That land was worked productively by tenant farmers, who produced value through their labor. — Tim O'reilly, Quartz, "Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech," 17 July 2019 Get our daily newsletter Under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme, adopted in 1988, tenant farmers and landless agricultural labourers were entitled to apply to the government for land of their own. — The Economist, "Filipino farmers are fighting—and dying—for land to till," 21 June 2019 The percentage of sharecroppers and tenant farmers tripled, until nearly one family in three was reduced to peonage, working for someone else—working just to live. — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, "Where Our New World Begins," 10 May 2019 The rebels, inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting the Indian government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers, the poor and indigenous communities. — Ashok Sharma, The Seattle Times, "India arrests 5 rights activists for alleged Maoist links," 28 Aug. 2018 The rebels, inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting the Indian government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers, the poor and indigenous communities. — Ashok Sharma, Fox News, "India arrests 5 rights activists for alleged Maoist links," 28 Aug. 2018 The Maoist rebels, inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting the Indian government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers, the poor and indigenous communities. — Fox News, "Maoist rebels detonate bomb in east India; 5 police killed," 20 May 2018 Prominent civil rights leader Julian Bond once called California port truckers the new black tenant farmers of the post-Civil War South. — The Courier-Journal, "OH SNAP!," 16 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tenant farmer.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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