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Smallholder vs Smallscale - What's the difference?

smallholder | smallscale |

As a noun smallholder

is a person who owns or runs a smallholding.

As an adjective smallscale is

on a small scale; rudimentary; lacking many details or components.

smallholder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British) A person who owns or runs a smallholding.
  • (American) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.
    • "…planters and smallholder's alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because '''small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders." (Wilma P. Dunaway, ''Slavery in the American Mountain South : "Introduction" 9, 2003)

    smallscale

    English

    Adjective

  • On a small scale; rudimentary; lacking many details or components