variants
or workfolks
as in tenant farmer
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Noun
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These parcels were given to native Hawaiian tenant farmers in 1850 and were considered sacred to the generations who had owned them since.—
Joyce Chen,
Architectural Digest,
16 Jan. 2025 -
The new draft act has its roots in the 1950s, when 30 to 40 percent of India’s farmland was worked by tenant farmers.—
Tim Hanstad,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2016
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California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Aug. 2023
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And if tuning out entirely isn’t your speed, such activities as foraging, beekeeping, flower collecting, and focaccia baking are all available to bolster the gentleman farmer vibe.—
Leena Kim,
Town & Country,
18 June 2023
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There is no need for Shyne to overly verbalize the significance of these images: Black farmers cultivating land on which they were once enslaved, using tools that ease the burden of this task.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
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But dairy farmers are required to milk cows and tend to the dairy every day, all year-round.—
Rachel Spacek,
Idaho Statesman,
24 Jan. 2025
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Our Ed Whelan and Andy McCarthy have done yeoman’s work in ensuring that a story the DOJ wanted buried would see the light of day.—
The Editors,
National Review,
16 Jan. 2025
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The central figure of early American mythology is the landowning yeoman, most prominently hailed by Thomas Jefferson.—
Jefferson Cowie,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Oct. 2016
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“Workfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workfolk. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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