sharecropping
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
sharecropping (countable and uncountable, plural sharecroppings)
- The system where a tenant farmer, especially in the southern United States, farms the land in exchange for a portion of the crops.
- 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 363:
- Slim came from sharecropping stock, his people farmed land but never owned it
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Verb edit
sharecropping
- present participle and gerund of sharecrop