small farmer
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2.0
- noun
- /smɔl ˈfɑrmər/
- Many small farmers in the region struggle to compete with larger agribusinesses.
- small farmers and agricultural laborers
- small farmers and peasants
- small farmers and workers
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Watch on YouTubeIt protects big, you know, agricultural, industrial agricultural production and basically enables war against small farmers.
- It protects big, you know, agricultural, industrial agricultural production and basically enables war against small farmers.
- We asked them, doesn't matter whether they're big or small farmers, whether they're land owners or tenants, whether they're young or not so young.
Examples
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The unit has set up well-organized programs to train small farmers.
Academic text (1997) -
Why should livestock figure so prominently in the strategy of small farmers?
Academic text (1993) -
It's hard times for small farmers like you and myself.
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- As long as we can help the small farmers.
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Financial support for small farmers' agencies has also been greatly reduced.
Fiction book (1994) -
Some object that the huge new operations will squeeze small farmers.
Academic text (1997) -
In St. Lucia, he worked with small farmers in a remote area.
Academic text (2011) -
In this case, the national law is seen as unfairly placing greater restrictions on small farmers.
Academic text (2013) -
Shannon's father and grandfather were both small farmers whose hard work and dedication went into every crop.
Blog text (28) -
The land will specifically be legally transferred to the peasants and small farmers, who are beneficiaries of the Agrarian Reform law.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
811
1.0
A person who grows crops or raises animals on a farm
147
3.5
A person who works on land for a living, usually on a small farm
68
2.6
A person who raises plants or crops to sell
4
3.7
A farmer who rents land from a landowner instead of owning it
1
5.8
A person who farms a small piece of land, often with family help
1
9.4
A person who works a very small farm often in Scotland or northern England
1
7.5
A small farmer who grows and gathers food plants
1
9.9
A person who lives and works on the land, like a farmer
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6.0
A person who grows plants or crops on land
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who owns or manages a small farm' is directly compositional from 'small' (limited in size) modifying 'farmer' (person who operates a farm), so the sense is predictable from the parts. This adjective + noun structure is a basic, cross-linguistically common pattern and therefore readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Small farmer comes from a simple picture of a person and their family working a few fields by hand. The word small shows the farm is little and farmer is the person who grows food, so the phrase means 'a person who owns or manages a small farm'.