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
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