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单词 smallholding
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Definition of smallholding in English:

smallholding

noun ˈsmɔːlhəʊldɪŋˈsmɔlhoʊldɪŋ
British
  • 1An agricultural holding smaller than a farm.

    〈英〉小块农田

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nearly all of the smallholdings in Spiti are subsistence farms; hand to mouth to belly and out again.
    • I wonder if many farms or smallholdings were lost in New Orleans or don't they have that sort of thing there?
    • But he also put in train measures to tackle the chronic shortage of smallholdings in the island by dividing up some of the large estates.
    • They are a nuisance to poultry farms and smallholdings.
    • In the 1950s and the 1960s, the traditional export economy was renewed by a very successful program of replanting rubber estates and smallholdings with more productive varieties of rubber trees.
    • Wilson's clients were generally small businesses, shopkeepers, farms and smallholdings - not the sort of enterprises where the stakes were high enough to warrant such retribution.
    • He is likely to divert scarce foreign currency and cheap credits to loyal small businesses or co-operatives; he also has plans to distribute urban plots and rural smallholdings to the poor.
    • This community typifies agricultural production in the State of Mexico which, characterized by smallholdings, has traditionally been one of the main maizeproducing states.
    • Meanwhile, deer are eating all the trees, reinvigorated sparrowhawks are devouring all the songbirds and smallholdings are going out of business.
    • Some 20 years ago Midrand was an agricultural zone, with smallholdings and farmlands.
    • The left overs will be thrown to the masses who have smallholdings and are predominately Rail employees.
    • And when they farm - if they farm at all - they do so inefficiently, in smallholdings, largely at the mercy of nature.
    • Dispossession from small rural landholdings and the decline in the viability of many smallholdings in the 19th century led to widespread evictions.
    • Nafta is also said to have put 250,000 maize farmers in Mexico out of work, their smallholdings no match for the industrial farms of the American Midwest.
    • In warm weather, one eats outside in an orange grove with views over rustic villas and smallholdings.
    • The committee also recommended that physical security on farms and smallholdings, a suitable replacement for the commando system, proper policing and rural security also should be addressed.
    • Just north of Angera, along a road edged by smallholdings, vineyards and the occasional rustic villa, is the sleepy village of Ranco.
    • Such equine luxury did not reach down the scale to farms and smallholdings, whose buildings are familiar from George Morland's paintings.
    • In Byzantium, tenant smallholdings quickly became the most widespread mode of cultivation, with the decrease in the number of large estates and a near total eclipse of farming by the owners until the eleventh century.
    • Like much of northern Portugal, Bairrada is an area of agricultural smallholdings.
    • In Barbados, sugar cultivation hastened the rise of larger plantations and the decline in the number of smallholdings - and, of course, a growing proportion of the population was black and enslaved.
    • Their parents fished along the Luapula river and cultivated seasonal crops on subsistence smallholdings, so purchasing expensive textbooks was out of the question.
    • Percy Chapman & Son was established in 1886 by Percy Chapman when he was 16, selling corn and seed to local smallholdings.
    • His ‘hands-on’ experience comes from running the family-owned estate which comprises 11 tenanted farms, ranging from 20-acre smallholdings up to 500 acres.
    Synonyms
    holding, farmstead, steading, grange, plantation, estate
    1. 1.1mass noun The practice of farming smallholdings.
      小块农田耕作
      cooperation with neighbours is the key to successful smallholding

      邻里合作是成功进行小块农田耕作的关键。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • By the 1980s unemployment and poverty could no longer be externalized to the homelands, and remnant smallholding could no longer give a majority of African people either significant income or social support.
      • The book which arose from the author's series on TV that touches on living in the country, cookery, self-sufficiency, food gathering and smallholding.
      • She's going to interview us for a programme about smallholding to be broadcast on Saturday 27th August (you can also listen on line, live and after the event).
      • This has made it the principal traditional family smallholding crop of choice.
      • We've also decided to take something of a sabbatical from smallholding next year, to allow us to concentrate on other things.
      • These small wineries have a great deal to offer in terms of the effort, skill and personal commitment they have invested in their own smallholding.
      • Whereas the Médoc is made up of large, grand estates, St-Émilion's 400 or so smallholders are essentially farmers, albeit dedicated to a single crop.

Derivatives

  • smallholder

  • noun ˈsmɔːlhəʊldəˈsmɔlhoʊldər
    British
    • A person who owns or manages an agricultural holding smaller than a farm.

      〈英〉小块农田

      urban sprawl threaten the fates of rural smallholders around the world
      Example sentencesExamples
      • as modifier smallholder farmers use a wide range of agricultural tools for more efficient weeding
      • More than 60 per cent of farmers in Zambia are smallholder or peasant farmers who depend largely on rain-fed agriculture.
      • It is at this point that we see the emergence of the yeoman farmer: a peasant smallholder with up to 100 acres of land.
      • Once a food exporter, Malawi is now a net importer: persistent drought is a factor but so too are cuts in farming subsidies and smallholders switching to cash crops like tobacco.

Definition of smallholding in US English:

smallholding

nounˈsmɔlhoʊldɪŋˈsmôlhōldiNG
British
  • 1An agricultural holding smaller than a farm.

    〈英〉小块农田

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nearly all of the smallholdings in Spiti are subsistence farms; hand to mouth to belly and out again.
    • He is likely to divert scarce foreign currency and cheap credits to loyal small businesses or co-operatives; he also has plans to distribute urban plots and rural smallholdings to the poor.
    • Nafta is also said to have put 250,000 maize farmers in Mexico out of work, their smallholdings no match for the industrial farms of the American Midwest.
    • Percy Chapman & Son was established in 1886 by Percy Chapman when he was 16, selling corn and seed to local smallholdings.
    • Like much of northern Portugal, Bairrada is an area of agricultural smallholdings.
    • But he also put in train measures to tackle the chronic shortage of smallholdings in the island by dividing up some of the large estates.
    • His ‘hands-on’ experience comes from running the family-owned estate which comprises 11 tenanted farms, ranging from 20-acre smallholdings up to 500 acres.
    • In Byzantium, tenant smallholdings quickly became the most widespread mode of cultivation, with the decrease in the number of large estates and a near total eclipse of farming by the owners until the eleventh century.
    • Meanwhile, deer are eating all the trees, reinvigorated sparrowhawks are devouring all the songbirds and smallholdings are going out of business.
    • They are a nuisance to poultry farms and smallholdings.
    • Dispossession from small rural landholdings and the decline in the viability of many smallholdings in the 19th century led to widespread evictions.
    • Their parents fished along the Luapula river and cultivated seasonal crops on subsistence smallholdings, so purchasing expensive textbooks was out of the question.
    • Wilson's clients were generally small businesses, shopkeepers, farms and smallholdings - not the sort of enterprises where the stakes were high enough to warrant such retribution.
    • This community typifies agricultural production in the State of Mexico which, characterized by smallholdings, has traditionally been one of the main maizeproducing states.
    • The committee also recommended that physical security on farms and smallholdings, a suitable replacement for the commando system, proper policing and rural security also should be addressed.
    • I wonder if many farms or smallholdings were lost in New Orleans or don't they have that sort of thing there?
    • Some 20 years ago Midrand was an agricultural zone, with smallholdings and farmlands.
    • Just north of Angera, along a road edged by smallholdings, vineyards and the occasional rustic villa, is the sleepy village of Ranco.
    • Such equine luxury did not reach down the scale to farms and smallholdings, whose buildings are familiar from George Morland's paintings.
    • In warm weather, one eats outside in an orange grove with views over rustic villas and smallholdings.
    • The left overs will be thrown to the masses who have smallholdings and are predominately Rail employees.
    • In Barbados, sugar cultivation hastened the rise of larger plantations and the decline in the number of smallholdings - and, of course, a growing proportion of the population was black and enslaved.
    • And when they farm - if they farm at all - they do so inefficiently, in smallholdings, largely at the mercy of nature.
    • In the 1950s and the 1960s, the traditional export economy was renewed by a very successful program of replanting rubber estates and smallholdings with more productive varieties of rubber trees.
    Synonyms
    holding, farmstead, steading, grange, plantation, estate
    1. 1.1 The practice of farming a smallholding.
      小块农田耕作
      cooperation with neighbors is the key to successful smallholding

      邻里合作是成功进行小块农田耕作的关键。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Whereas the Médoc is made up of large, grand estates, St-Émilion's 400 or so smallholders are essentially farmers, albeit dedicated to a single crop.
      • The book which arose from the author's series on TV that touches on living in the country, cookery, self-sufficiency, food gathering and smallholding.
      • This has made it the principal traditional family smallholding crop of choice.
      • We've also decided to take something of a sabbatical from smallholding next year, to allow us to concentrate on other things.
      • By the 1980s unemployment and poverty could no longer be externalized to the homelands, and remnant smallholding could no longer give a majority of African people either significant income or social support.
      • These small wineries have a great deal to offer in terms of the effort, skill and personal commitment they have invested in their own smallholding.
      • She's going to interview us for a programme about smallholding to be broadcast on Saturday 27th August (you can also listen on line, live and after the event).
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