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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesmezzadria
Pronunciation / Transliteration: med.dzadˈriː.a
"La mezzadria ha segnato la storia della campagna italiana."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
An agricultural system in which landowners rent their land to tenant farmers who provide labor and tools, typically paying rent in cash or a share of the produce.
"Many impoverished families were trapped in cycles of debt under the oppressive conditions of tenant-farming." - 2
The practice or occupation of working as a tenant farmer.
"Tenant-farming was the dominant mode of agricultural production in the American South following the Civil War."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Middle English word 'tenant' (from Old French 'tenant', meaning 'holding, possessing', from the Latin 'tenere', meaning 'to hold'), combined with 'farming' from Old English 'feormian' (to provision, feed). The composite term emerged in the late medieval and early modern agrarian eras to describe the socioeconomic system where agricultural land is rented and cultivated by non-owners.
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fermage
Transliteration: fɛʁ.maʒ
"Le fermage est un système courant dans cette région agricole."
Pachtlandwirtschaft
Transliteration: paxtˌlant.vɪʁt.ʃaft
"Die Pachtlandwirtschaft war jahrhundertelang weit verbreitet."
mezzadria
Transliteration: med.dzadˈriː.a
"La mezzadria ha segnato la storia della campagna italiana."
aparcería
Transliteration: a.paɾ.seˈɾi.a
"La aparcería obligaba al campesino a entregar parte de la cosecha."
arrendamento rural
Transliteration: a.ʁẽ.daˈmẽ.tu ʁuˈraw
"O arrendamento rural regulamenta a exploração da terra."
बटाईदारी
Transliteration: bataidari
"भारत के कई हिस्सों में बटाईदारी प्रथा आज भी मौजूद है।"
佃农制
Transliteration: diànnóngzhì
"佃农制在历史上的封建社会非常普遍。"
소작농 제도
Transliteration: sojaknong jedo
"한국 역사에서 소작농 제도는 농민들에게 큰 부담이었다."
小作制度
Transliteration: kosaku seido
"戦前の日本では小作制度の改革が急務であった。"
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