| 单词 | share tenant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshare tenant share tenant n. chiefly U.S. a tenant farmer who gives a percentage of the income from their crops to a landowner as rent, and who is responsible for providing labour, equipment, and usually a degree of management.Share tenants are distinguished from sharecroppers (see sharecropper n.) in that they typically farm larger plots or operate farms with larger outputs than sharecroppers do. ΚΠ 1872 Republican Banner (Nashville, Tennessee) 25 Dec. 2/2 The tax..should be paid..to the producers, the planters, the share tenants, and the colored men who raised it [sc. cotton]. 1935 C. S. Johnson et al. Collapse of Cotton Tenancy i. 22 For a share tenant to rise above his status he must overcome insuperable obstacles. 2008 H. Jordan Mudbound (2009) 75 They were share tenants, not sharecroppers, so they only paid me a quarter of their crop as opposed to half. < as lemmas |
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