smallholder
IPA: smˈɔɫhoʊɫdɝ
noun
- A person who owns or runs a smallholding, a minor independent farmer.
- (US, historical) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.
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Examples of "smallholder" in Sentences
- There is some smallholder cultivation of tobacco.
- Biotechnology for smallholders in the sub tropics.
- Tea is grown as an estate as well as a smallholder crop.
- It is virtually all smallholder grown, and much of it shade grown.
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