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.

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