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Stallholder vs Smallholder - What's the difference?

stallholder | smallholder |

As nouns the difference between stallholder and smallholder

is that stallholder is a person who operates a market stall while smallholder is a person who owns or runs a smallholding.

stallholder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who operates a market stall.

    • 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)