marginal farmer
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A farmer with a bare subsistence level of income from their own land, sometimes working as an agricultural laborer.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see marginal, farmer.
Example Sentences
- "In India, the percentage of marginal farmers among all farmers is nearly 70%."
- "First, in equilibrium the marginal (last) farmer finds that the cost of the last unit of fertilizer (i.e. the market price) is just equal to its benefit."
- "(“Marginal” in an economic sense means “additional” or “incremental,” but has no normative or pejorative connotation.) At that point, adding more workers to a unit of farmland leads to less and less additional output, because the land cannot accommodate so many workers. […] No marginal product, or even a negative marginal product, results from the marginal farmer."
- "Farmers maximise expected profit under each technology and government maximises welfare. This determines when the marginal farmer chooses legal GM seed rather than illegal GM seed or conventional seed."