cheque-book, noun

colloquial. Used attributively or as quasi-adjective, especially in the phrase cheque-book farmer, one with capital at his disposal and therefore removed from active participation in farming, or freed from dependence on farming income. Cf. stoep-farmer (see stoep sense 2).
1926 M. Nathan S. Afr. from Within 289Many born South Africans, even those with plenty of capital at their command (known colloquially as ‘cheque-book farmers’) have not succeeded.
1937 C. Birkby Zulu Journey 130He came to South Africa as a cheque-book settler, farmed through half a dozen plagues and then realised with the setting of one droughty sun that he was penniless.
1976 S. Cloete Chetoko 173He looked at Frank Metz’s shiny new car disappearing down the farm road and wished he was a cheque-book farmer too.
Used attributively or as quasi-adjective, especially in the phrase cheque-book farmer, one with capital at his disposal and therefore removed from active participation in farming, or freed from dependence on farming income.
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