sharecrop

[ shair-krop ]

verb (used with or without object)

, share·cropped, share·crop·ping.

1. to farm as a sharecropper.

sharecrop

/ ˈʃɛəˌkrɒp /

verb

1. to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper

Word History and Origins

Origin of sharecrop¹

1865–70, Americanism; back formation from sharecropper

Example Sentences

His grandmother, who is in her 70s, is a steady presence, but she attended little school while growing up in a sharecropping family in South Carolina.

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