🔤 Metayage ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
khet mazdoori ka system, kheti baari ka system, khet ka theka, khet ka ijara, khet ka contract, khet ka agreement
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ENGLISH
📚noun
metayage
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈmɛteɪɑːʒ/
Phonetic: /met ay ahzh/
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DEFINITION
a system of land tenure where tenants pay rent with a share of the crop, an agricultural arrangement involving payment through portion of produce, a farming contract based on sharing harvest yields
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
Farmers under metayage agreements shared half their harvest with landowners as rent.
The metayage system was common in rural regions where cash payments were scarce.
Historical records document metayage contracts dating back several centuries in Europe.
Critics argued that metayage often exploited tenant farmers by taking excessive shares.
Modern agriculture has largely replaced metayage with monetary lease arrangements.
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SYNONYMS
sharecropping crop sharing tenant farming produce rent harvest sharing
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ANTONYMS
cash rent fixed lease monetary tenancy wage labor salaried farming
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