workfolk

noun

variants or workfolks
Definition of workfolknext
as in tenant farmer

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  1. tenant farmer
  2. gentleman farmer
  3. farmer
  4. yeoman
Noun
  • Carter worked the land throughout the Great Depression, but it was owned by the elder Carter, who employed the surrounding Black tenant farmers in the era of Jim Crow segregation.
    Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The Carters were the only white family in Archery, and his playmates were the children of Black tenant farmers.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of tenant farmer
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of gentleman farmer
Noun
  • Midwest states are also actively luring California dairy farmers to their region with promises of fewer regulations.
    Kenny Torrella, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Kehoe, in his first speech, also emphasized a need to reduce taxes and regulations on businesses and farmers.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of farmer
Noun
  • The central figure of early American mythology is the landowning yeoman, most prominently hailed by Thomas Jefferson.
    Jefferson Cowie, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
  • With all due respect to the yeoman’s work that Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson did for the Resident Evil adaptations over the years, Welcome to Raccoon City is actually the best Res movie to date.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
Definition of yeoman
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