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单词 crofter
释义
crofter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkrɒf.tər/us
/ˈkrɑːf.tɚ/
someone wholivesandworkson acroft(= a verysmallfarm,especiallyinScotland):
He is thesonof aScottishcrofter.
Theactivitiesoffarmersand crofters arevitalto the wellbeing of thecountryside.
See
croft
More examples
  • Theylivein aconvertedcrofter'scottage.
  • Thousands of crofters wereevictedfromtheirhomesinorderto makeroomforprofitablesheep-farming.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Farmers & farm workers
  • farmer
  • farmhand
  • homesteader
  • landholder
  • market gardener
  • non-farmer
  • pastoralist
  • peasant
  • peon
  • picker
  • ploughman
  • poulterer
  • rancher
  • ryot
  • sharecropper
  • smallholder
  • squatter
  • truck farmer
  • yeoman
(Definition ofcrofterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcrofter

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Servants were gradually replaced by other types of labour with work duties as crofters or different types of paid workers.
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Even smallholders, crofters and cottagers in freehold parishes were better off in old age than former tenant farmers on the estates.
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Tradition in the county maintains that depression results from loneliness in intelligent crofters.
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On retirement, it must have been almost impossible to muster the means of subsistence from such a house or smaller crofter's holding.
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Their labour duties were less onerous than those of crofters, and they were free to offer their labour in the local labour market.
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Analysis reveals marked and unexpected differences in fertility and marital patterns between different types of community and between land-owning farmers and landrenting crofters.
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In exchange for a house and some land, crofters had to provide a labour service to the landowner.
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For three of the estates there was a considerable difference between farmers, on the one hand, and crofters, cottagers and smaller farmers on the other.
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In practice there were great differences between crofters who rented large land areas and crofters who had just small plots.
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Therefore, their situation was similar to, for instance, that of the crofters.
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This was particularly common among cottagers and crofters or their widows, and there might be no formal contract.
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While landless workers, crofters and artisans in most cases lived in small nuclear neo-local families, landholding farmers adhered to other patterns.
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The social situation of crofters was somewhere in-between tenants on noble land and cottagers\\lodgers.
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There were in all 182 farmers and crofters on the estate.
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Since the owner of the land almost always owned all buildings errected on it, tenant farmers, cottagers and crofters did not have any formal rights to dwellings when they retired.
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