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sharecrop
[ shair-krop ]
/ ˈʃɛərˌkrɒp /
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verb (used with or without object), share·cropped, share·crop·ping.
to farm as a sharecropper.
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Origin of sharecrop
1865–70, Americanism; back formation from sharecropper
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How to use sharecrop in a sentence
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.
British Dictionary definitions for sharecrop
sharecrop
/ (ˈʃɛəˌkrɒp) /
verb -crops, -cropping or -cropped
mainly US to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
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