smallholding
/ˈsmɔːlhəʊldɪŋ/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈsmɔːlhəʊldɪŋ/
smallholding
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Aw vowel
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- Final ng sound
smal - lhol - ding -> smallholding
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
smallholding /'smç:lhå7ldÇ5/ n (Brit )
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- ‘In warm weather, one eats outside in an orange grove with views over rustic villas and smallholdings.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Their parents fished along the Luapula river and cultivated seasonal crops on subsistence smallholdings, so purchasing expensive textbooks was out of the question.’
- ‘Some 20 years ago Midrand was an agricultural zone, with smallholdings and farmlands.’
- ‘Like much of northern Portugal, Bairrada is an area of agricultural smallholdings.’
- ‘Dispossession from small rural landholdings and the decline in the viability of many smallholdings in the 19th century led to widespread evictions.’
- ‘Just north of Angera, along a road edged by smallholdings, vineyards and the occasional rustic villa, is the sleepy village of Ranco.’
- ‘I wonder if many farms or smallholdings were lost in New Orleans or don't they have that sort of thing there?’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Percy Chapman & Son was established in 1886 by Percy Chapman when he was 16, selling corn and seed to local 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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘The left overs will be thrown to the masses who have smallholdings and are predominately Rail employees.’
- ‘They are a nuisance to poultry farms and smallholdings.’
- ‘Nearly all of the smallholdings in Spiti are subsistence farms; hand to mouth to belly and out again.’
- ‘Meanwhile, deer are eating all the trees, reinvigorated sparrowhawks are devouring all the songbirds and smallholdings are going out of business.’
- ‘Such equine luxury did not reach down the scale to farms and smallholdings, whose buildings are familiar from George Morland's paintings.’
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