shareherder

plural shareherders · alternative share-herder · alternative share herder

1. One who cares for herd animals owned by someone else, in exchange for a share of the profits or offspring.

   Other shareherders were not quite as reckless and managed to build up their herds by claiming small losses.

   1991, Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier, page 176

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   However, such arrangements also lead to sub-optimal use of the resource base because the shareherder is less motivated.

   1992, Idriss Jazairy, Mohiuddin Alamgir, John Stanier, The State of World Rural Poverty, →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.

   2001 -, Marguerite Robinson, The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor, →ISBN