smallholding

See also: small holding

English

Alternative forms

small holding

Noun

smallholding (plural smallholdings)

A small farm.
(US, historical) A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less). Contrasted with middling plantation (20-49 slaves) and large plantation (50+ and owned by planters).
- 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 8:
  […] the larger plantations implemented different crop choices, surveillance strategies, and labor management practices than did smallholdings.

Related terms

smallholder

Translations

small farm

Danish: husmandssted n, husmandsbrug n
Finnish: pientila (fi)
Greek: μικροκαλλιέργεια f (mikrokalliérgeia)
Hungarian: kisbirtok (hu), törpebirtok (hu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: småbruk n

Nynorsk: småbruk n

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