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smallholder

smallholder noun: a person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.

Noun

smallholder (plural smallholders)

  1. A person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
  2. (US, historical) A small slaveholder: a person who owns a smallholding (small plantation with slavery).
    • […] planters and smallholders alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders.2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 9

Forms of smallholder

pluralsmallholders

Questions about smallholder

What does smallholder mean?
Smallholder means a person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
What part of speech is smallholder?
Smallholder is a noun.
What is the plural of smallholder?
The plural of smallholder is smallholders.

Words near smallholder in the dictionary

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  3. smallfolk
  4. smallgood
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  6. smallholder
  7. smallholders
  8. smallholding
  9. smallholdings
  10. smallie
  11. smallies

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