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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