Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The occupying of a farm on lease, and not as owner.
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Examples
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By guaranteeing access to the land, he hoped it would be possible to liberate millions from tenant-farming, sharecropping, and all forms of “wage slavery.”
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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By guaranteeing access to the land, he hoped it would be possible to liberate millions from tenant-farming, sharecropping, and all forms of “wage slavery.”
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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By guaranteeing access to the land, he hoped it would be possible to liberate millions from tenant-farming, sharecropping, and all forms of “wage slavery.”
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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By guaranteeing access to the land, he hoped it would be possible to liberate millions from tenant-farming, sharecropping, and all forms of “wage slavery.”
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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By guaranteeing access to the land, he hoped it would be possible to liberate millions from tenant-farming, sharecropping, and all forms of “wage slavery.”
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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In districts where tenant-farming is largely in vogue, gray hairs are much fewer.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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Much of the farming in these parts is tenant-farming on a fair scale, i.e., fifty to two or three hundred acres.
Holidays in Eastern France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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The poorest has his bit of land, to which he adds from time to time by the fruit of his industry, and though tenant-farming is carried on largely, owing to the wealth and enterprize of the agricultural population, the tenant-farmers almost always possess land of their own, and they hire more in order to save money for future purchases.
Holidays in Eastern France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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If tenant-farming does not pay in England, it certainly can only do so in France by means of a laboriousness and economy of which we have hardly an idea.
Holidays in Eastern France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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Of course they could only make tenant-farming pay by means of excessive economy and laboriousness, as the rents are high, but in these respects they are not wanting.
Holidays in Eastern France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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