spec. A person who holds land on lease for the purposes of growing crops, raising livestock, etc.; a tenant farmer (tenant-farmer n. at tenant, n.…

One who holds a fee-farm.

spec. A tenant farmer.

In South Asia: a peasant, husbandman, or cultivating tenant.

Originally: a tenant of a farmhold. Later more generally: a person who owns or rents a farm.

In Ireland: a tenant farmer of a type considered to be characterized by greedy and unscrupulous practices. Also: a person who colludes with…

A farmer who holds land under the métayage system.

A tenant-farmer (in the early English community).

A tenant farmer working under the mezzadria system.

A poor tenant farmer who lives on the farm of another man to whom he renders certain services (with or without payment in produce or money), being…