Agricultural Labor Terms

noun A person who is hired to work on a farm, typically performing manual labor tasks such as planting, harvesting, and caring for animals.

• The farmhand was responsible for feeding the livestock and maintaining the fields.
• The farmhand always had a friendly smile and a helpful attitude.
• Hey, did you see that farmhand over there? He's a hard worker!
• She was the farmhand of the office, always taking care of the little tasks that kept things running smoothly.

noun a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.

• The sharecropper worked the land in exchange for a portion of the crops produced.
• My grandpa used to be a sharecropper back in the day.
• The sharecropper hustled hard to make ends meet.
• Being stuck in that job felt like being a modern-day sharecropper, working tirelessly for little reward.

noun a person entirely under the domination of another

• In medieval times, a villein was a peasant who was bound to work on their lord's land.
• Back in the day, a villein was basically a serf who had to work for the lord.
• The villein had to toil away in the fields all day long.
• Being treated like a villein in modern times means being stuck in a low-paying job with no prospects for advancement.