shareherder

English

Alternative forms

• share-herder
• share herder

Etymology

By analogy to sharecropper

Noun

shareherder (plural shareherders)

1. One who cares for herd 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.