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  • noun Plural form of agriculturist.

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Examples

  • Later semi-nomadic agriculturists from the south were displaced by the first Berbers, ancestors of the present Twareg inhabitants.

    Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger 2008

  • Again, several castes have the same traditional occupation; about forty of the castes of the Central Provinces are classified as agriculturists, eleven as weavers, seven as fishermen, and so on.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

  • The fact is, that the agriculturists are a singularly stay-at-home race of men.

    The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867

  • The agriculturists are a remarkably observant race, and as a rule peculiarly well-informed.

    The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867

  • a basis for an unequal division of _favors_, it would be iniquitous in practice; because the result would be that one-third of the people, engaged in manufactures, would obtain the sweets of monopoly, for the reason that they produced _by labor_, while the other two-thirds, that is to say the agriculturists, would be abandoned to competition, under pretext that they produced without labor.

    What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader Fr��d��ric Bastiat 1825

  • When the belligerent "agriculturists" came to be told off into these tents an amusing difficulty, illustrative of the light handling necessary to the conduct of affairs in Ireland, interrupted the dulness which had hitherto oppressed all present.

    Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

  • Those "agriculturists" who hailed from Cavan insisted that they would foregather only with Cavan men, while the men of Monaghan were equally indisposed to give a Cavan man "as much space as a lark could stand on" in their tents.

    Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

  • Of 1000 members of the medical profession, 600 died before their sixty-second year; whilst of persons leading a quiet life -- such as agriculturists or theologians -- the mortality is only 347.

    Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844

  • "Up in the State, out my way," says the narrator, "there was a farmer in the days when his sort were not called agriculturists; he kep 'an orchard, at the same time, without being called a horticulturist.

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • “Up in the State, out my way,” says the narrator, “there was a farmer in the days when his sort were not called agriculturists; he kep 'an orchard, at the same time, without being called a horticulturist.

    The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

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