tenant farmer

NOUN

farmer of rented land

Synonyms

WEAK

crofter metayer peasant farmer sharecropper

Example Sentences

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The son of a tenant farmer, Walker and his family worried that an injury in his senior year could jeopardize his professional career and the millions of dollars awaiting him there.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2022

The daughter of a tenant farmer and a homemaker, Boss grew up in New Glarus, a Wisconsin village populated mostly by Swiss immigrants, including her father.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

Rob Hayward, a tenant farmer and former Conservative councillor, has farmed on these fields for generations.

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2021

In April 1930, as the Great Depression descended, a White tenant farmer named Drew Farlow hired George Hughes to work his rented farm in Luella, about seven miles from Sherman.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2021

So she would be a tenant farmer after all?

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata