Smallholder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Smallholder is a noun meaning A person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
Meaning
A person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
More Meanings
- (US, historical) A small slaveholder: a person who owns a smallholding (small plantation with slavery).
Example Sentences
[…] planters and smallholders alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders.
Word Forms
- smallholders
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