sharecrop
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of sharecrop
1865–70, back formation from sharecropper
Example Sentences
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“By the time my grandfather, Eddie, took the family back down south to sharecrop, all of those kids were city kids,” he said.
From The New Yorker
The records of the Freedmen’s Bureau contain marriage certificates, labor contracts, and sharecropping agreements; since many former slaveholders ended up contracting with former slaves to sharecrop on their land, this could be a clue to a connection.
From Slate
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 Literature
Beyond the allure of Patton’s music for Pops, Mr. Kot writes, “there was the symbolism of what he represented: a free man who didn’t have to sharecrop to eat, who could come and go as he pleased, making records and playing for people in far-off towns.”
From New York Times
Where I grew up, everyone was either a sharecrop farmer or working in unskilled jobs in the oil industry.
From The Guardian
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