métayer noun. [metɛje] Pl. pronounced same. L18.
[French from medieval Latin medietarius, from medietas half: see MOIETY.]
A farmer who holds land on the métayage system.

■ métayage [metɛja:ʒ (pl. same)] noun a system of land tenure in western Europe and the US, in which the farmer pays a certain proportion (generally half) of the produce to the owner as rent, and the owner generally provides stock and seed L19.

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