tenant farmer
noun [C]Definition
› PROPERTY a farmer who pays rent to use land owned by someone else: Millions of farmers in the Philippines are tenant farmers and, on average, they hand over 60-70% of their harvest to their landlord as rent.
(Definition of tenant farmer noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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