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  • noun One who is not a farmer.

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non- +‎ farmer

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  • To secure a steady supply of high-quality fruit, Mr. Singer leased land in three central Japan prefectures and now has nine koshu vineyards, a huge landholding for a nonfarmer in Japan.

    NYT > Home Page By CORIE BROWN 2010

  • To secure a steady supply of high-quality fruit, Mr. Singer leased land in three central Japan prefectures and now has nine koshu vineyards, a huge landholding for a nonfarmer in Japan.

    NYT > Home Page By CORIE BROWN 2010

  • Membership (as a proportion of nonfarmer workers) peaked at about 32% in 1955, and entered a long, steady decline, counterbalanced in part by a growth of unions in the public sector (inclusing hospital workers, police, corrections guards, firemen, municipal workers and postal emplopyees.)

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Membership (as a proportion of nonfarmer workers) peaked at about 32% in 1955, and entered a long, steady decline, counterbalanced in part by a growth of unions in the public sector (inclusing hospital workers, police, corrections guards, firemen, municipal workers and postal emplopyees.)

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Membership (as a proportion of nonfarmer workers) peaked at about 32% in 1955, and entered a long, steady decline, counterbalanced in part by a growth of unions in the public sector (inclusing hospital workers, police, corrections guards, firemen, municipal workers and postal emplopyees.)

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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