tenantfarmer
nounUK /ˈtɛnəntˌfɑːmə/
US /ˈtɛnəntˌfɑːrmər/
A tenant farmer is a farmer who rents land from someone else to grow crops.
The tenant farmer paid the landowner a share of his harvest each year.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A person who works farmland owned by another and pays rent in money or crops.
Many tenant farmers in the region grew wheat on rented plots.
3. A farmer with a lease rather than ownership of the land.
As a tenant farmer, she could not sell the fields she worked.
4. Historically, an agricultural worker bound to rented land under a landowner.
The old records list him as a tenant farmer on the estate.