shareherder
shareherder noun: one who cares for herd animals owned by someone else, in exchange for a share of the profits or offspring.
Noun
shareherder (plural shareherders)
- One who cares for herd animals owned by someone else, in exchange for a share of the profits or offspring.
- Other shareherders were not quite as reckless and managed to build up their herds by claiming small losses.1991, Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier, page 176
- However, such arrangements also lead to sub-optimal use of the resource base because the shareherder is less motivated.1992, Idriss Jazairy, Mohiuddin Alamgir, John Stanier, The State of World Rural Poverty, →ISBN
Forms of shareherder
| plural | shareherders |
|---|---|
| alternative form | share-herder |
| alternative form | share herder |
Origin of shareherder
By analogy to sharecropper
Questions about shareherder
- What does shareherder mean?
- Shareherder means one who cares for herd animals owned by someone else, in exchange for a share of the profits or offspring.
- What part of speech is shareherder?
- Shareherder is a noun.
- What is the plural of shareherder?
- The plural of shareherder is shareherders.
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