sharecrop
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of sharecrop
1865–70, back formation from sharecropper
Example Sentences
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Where I grew up, everyone was either a sharecrop farmer or working in unskilled jobs in the oil industry.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
How much pogy is caught is everybody's business, for the men sharecrop the catch, getting a dime apiece for every 1,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists, well-to-do radicals.
From Time Magazine Archive
After that he pulled himself together, and when the chance came along to lease and sharecrop a hundred acres from a big strawberry grower up north in Santa Clara Valley he took it.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
The boss man told them they could work by the day or sharecrop or they could work by groups.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
He worked a public job and we as a family worked on the farm and sharecropped.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2021
Glen Travis Campbell was born on April 22, 1936, about 80 miles southwest of Little Rock, Ark., between Billstown and Delight, where his father sharecropped 120 acres of cotton.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2017
His father, Whitten Sparkman, sharecropped 160 acres, but much preferred dabbling in politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
His poor family sharecropped land owned by Don Luigi Sturzo, Italy's great political priest who founded what is now the Christian Democratic Party.
From Time Magazine Archive
Me and my sister sharecropped and made seven bales of cotton in one year.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
Many of the victims were descendants of the enslaved who had been forced into sharecropping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
Born to sharecropping parents in North Carolina in 1904, Kittrell was the eighth of nine children.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Born in Tennessee into a sharecropping family, she first found prominence as one of the backing singers for her husband's band The Kings of Rhythm.
From BBC ● May 24, 2023
From sharecropping SB Nation team blogs to credulous Huffington Post fellowships, the digital media sector was once singularly financed by their toil.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2023
They stayed to themselves, kept on sharecropping, and saving every dollar they could; hoping that someday they could buy a farm of their own.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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