单词 | minifundio |
释义 | minifundion. In Latin America: a smallholding; esp. an estate too small to support a single family. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > small holding or croft manslotOE bargain1602 burgaine1607 smallholding1696 possession1717 farmlet1794 homecroft1828 croft1850 crofting1851 five-acre1863 three acres and a cow1885 farmette1913 minifundium1950 minifundioa1955 a1955 I. M. R. Cabrera Land Tenure & Land Distrib. in Cuba 1, in Conf. World Land Tenure Problems i Although the concentration of land in the hands of a few is regrettable, the minifundios or very small landholdings are disastrous. 1960 Américas Aug. 11/1 In most of the Latin American countries more than half of the agricultural units..are minifundios of less than twenty-five acres—often so small that they can't even be termed subsistence farms. 1970 C. T. Restrepo in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. xiv. 509 In view of the predominance of minifundio owners and harvest workers within the Colombian peasant population, we can be certain that the individualistic attitude is quite general. 1990 ‘L. de Bernières’ War Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts xiii. 98 They..cannot leave their minifundios for fear of losing a crop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1955 |
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