Definitions

tenant farmer

NOUN

farmer of rented land

Synonyms

WEAK

crofter metayer peasant farmer sharecropper

Example Sentences

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Tenant-farmer, a phrase which has lately been in the mouth of every politician, is as fine a piece of tautology as ‘coat-making tailor’ or ‘shoe-mending cobbler’ would be.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony