Meaning & use
tenant farmer
A farmer who works land owned by someone else and pays rent, often in money or a share of crops.
See it in a sentence
The tenant farmer paid the landowner a portion of each harvest instead of cash rent.
Many tenant farmers struggled after the drought ruined their crops and left them unable to pay rent.
A note on using this word
A tenant farmer differs from a sharecropper mainly in how rent is paid: a sharecropper typically pays with a share of the crop rather than cash.
Words with a similar meaning
sharecropper
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Words with an opposite meaning
landowner
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