shareherder
English
Etymology
By analogy to sharecropper
Alternative forms
- share-herder
- share herder
Noun
shareherder (plural shareherders)
- One who cares forherd animals owned by someone else, in exchange for a share of the profits or offspring.
- 1991, Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier, page 176:
- Other shareherders were not quite as reckless and managed to build up their herds by claiming small losses.
- 1992, Idriss Jazairy, Mohiuddin Alamgir, & John Stanier, The State of World Rural Poverty, →ISBN:
- However, such arrangements also lead to sub-optimal use of the resource base because the shareherder is less motivated.
- 2001 -, Marguerite Robinson, The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor, →ISBN:
- Shareherding is analogous to sharecropping: the owner of an animal gives it to be cared for by a shareherder, and the animal's progeny are divided between the owner and the shareherder.
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