sharecropper
IPA: ʃˈɛrkrɑpɝ
noun
- A person who enters an agreement with a land owner to farm the land and then pay a portion (share) of the produce as rent; one who sharecrops.
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Examples of "sharecropper" in Sentences
- At age 22, he work a sharecropper farm.
- Hardworking sharecropper and family man.
- He is a sharecropper and has his cotton plowed.
- The landowner and sharecropper split the harvest.
- His father couldn't even make it as a sharecropper.
- Booker became a sharecropper soon after the marriage.
- The community are entirely landless, but many are sharecroppers.
- This prevented exploitation of the sharecroppers by the landowners.
- Bradley was a son of a sharecropper and the grandson of former slaves.
- Purchasing land should not involve the dispossession of poor sharecroppers.
- What Warren Buffett is referring to as a sharecropper economy is here, isn't it?
- You are talking about something you refer to as the sharecropper society and economy.
- Until then me and Warren and George will continue to warn about the "sharecropper" society.
- Menagh points to Kipp Nash, a school-bus driver and self-described "sharecropper" in Boulder who farms about a dozen other people's yards.
- A sharecropper is a tenant farmer who is-the system is this: Sharecropper is the -- is the successor system to slavery in the South, basically.
- "furnish-hand" (more often called a sharecropper) is dependent on the owner for equipment, seed, food -- everything -- and pays one half his crop.
- The sharecropper is a straw man, an intermediary, usually a middle-aged farm worker, to whom the grower shifts many of the legal and financial risks.
- Nick Carr, author of The Big Switch, who has been the most eloquent in articulating the "sharecropper" concern, which Lanier now extends with his "lords of the computing clouds" notion.
- In order to demonstrate that the sharecropper is not an employee of Kirk's, the contracts stress that "no partnership, joint venture, co-farming, tenant farming, or other business relationship" has been created.