tenant farmers

noun

plural of tenant farmer
as in subsistence farmers

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  1. growers
  2. sharecroppers
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  • In May, officials in Kern County alone also reported a 42% loss in cherry production this year due to a hot stretch in March followed by April rain accounting for a total loss of more than $13 million for growers.
    — Jonathan Destler, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Some indoor farms do not have bees, and growers pay workers to pollinate flowers by hand.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
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  • Born to sharecroppers in South Carolina and raised in Harlem, New York, Gibson lived in a world far from white country clubs or Black luxury.
    — Sophia Zhang, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • All my grandparents were sharecroppers in Mississippi before migrating to Gary in the late 1920s.
    — Lori Latham, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
Definition of sharecroppers
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