tenant farming

collocation in English

meaningsoftenantandfarming

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tenant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈten.ənt/us
/ˈten.ənt/
a person who pays rent for the use of land or ...
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farming
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfɑː.mɪŋ/us
/ˈfɑːr.mɪŋ/
the activity of working on a farm or organizing the ...
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(Definition oftenantandfarmingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftenant farming

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Tenantfarmingwas the rule and the farm units suffered from insecurity because of the shortness of leases.
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Here there was a preponderance of smaller farms and a greater tendency towardstenantfarming, as well as localised concentrations of fruit, hop and vine growing.
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This is how landlord andtenantfarminghas been carried on for the past 18 years.
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There can be no doubt thattenantfarminghas been a success.
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The way in which landlords have moved into in-hand farming has nothing to do withtenantfarming.
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We might be better with some nationalisation of some description to maintaintenantfarming.
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The object is said to be the avoidance of hardship and the improvement oftenantfarming.
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I can take you to a farm where, under ownership, the expansion of farming has been greater than it ever could be undertenantfarming.
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He also says that it will lead to improvedtenantfarmingstandards.
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One of the merits claimed fortenantfarmingis that it provides a starting point for young farmers and is the first rung on the farming ladder.
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That could have hit some farmers severely and it could have damaged the wholetenantfarmingsector.
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While most people in high places pay tribute to smallholdings as a prop oftenantfarming, no one is doing very much to prevent its decline.
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At a time whentenantfarmingis under pressure from all sorts of directions, smallholding, as a start into farming, is as fundamentaly important as ever.
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He spoke of the farming schemes, and particularly thetenantfarmingschemes that are going on.
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This will not happen immediately; it may take one hundred years to do it—say two or three generations—but agricultural land investment andtenantfarmingwill disappear.
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Thetenantfarmingstructure has served well.
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Sharecropping agreements can however be made fairly, as a form oftenantfarmingor sharefarming that has a variable rental payment, paid in arrears.
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Many freedmen turned to sharecropping andtenantfarmingas a way of life.
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Sharecropping andtenantfarminghad become ways of life.
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The original acreage was increased to 33,000 acres and a new system oftenantfarmingwas introduced.
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