smallholding
- noun
- /ˈsmɔːlˌhoʊldɪŋ/
- UK
:
pequeña propiedad
- After retiring, she bought a smallholding in the countryside to live a quieter life and cultivate her own food.
My sister had a pony with some dogs and cats and got ducks and little, you know, wasn't a functional farm, I'd say a smallholding.
- My sister had a pony with some dogs and cats and got ducks and little, you know, wasn't a functional farm, I'd say a smallholding.
Examples
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It is often based on groupings of smallholdings known as laymes, with communities allocating land access and usage rights to families.
Academic text (2017) -
Many who had previously worked smallholdings, finding themselves dispossessed with little work or money, were forced to the towns to seek a living.
Academic text (2010) -
More often than not, the turbines were standing alone, usually on farms or smallholdings, but even on the grounds of some private homes.
Blog text (28) -
Our host, Silvia, was a tough middle-aged woman who ran a smallholding complete with a vegetable garden, fruit orchard, goats, and chickens.
Blog text (23) -
During the catastrophic drought-related famine of 1945, still referred to locally as the Year of Death, there was a wholesale reduction of smallholdings.
Academic text (1992) -
But as the civil wars of the 1980s ebbed or ended and free-market policies began to appear inexorable, smallholding agriculturalists in different countries increasingly recognized that they faced similar problems.
Academic text (1998) -
My parents own a smallholding where we grow vegetables and keep chickens.
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Many families find that a smallholding provides them with both land for gardening and a peaceful lifestyle.
Synonyms
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4.9
A piece of land marked to sell or build on
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1.8
A small area of land that someone owns or uses
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4.1
A house with the land around it, usually in the countryside for farming
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3.0
A small piece of ground for growing plants or building on
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2.9
A piece of land sold or owned as one unit
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3.7
A small piece of land that people rent to grow vegetables or flowers
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7.7
A small farm near a house where people keep a few animals or grow food
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5.1
An area of land that someone owns, like a farm or property
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Etymology
Smallholding comes from two clear parts, small meaning 'little' and holding meaning 'land someone holds'. So a smallholding is a small piece of land a person or family keeps for farming and living from.