sharecropper

English

Noun

sharecropper (plural sharecroppers)

1. A person who enters an agreement with a land owner to farm the land and then pay a portion (share) of the produce as rent; one who sharecrops.
2. (publishing, attributive) A fiction book set in a fictional universe created by a different author, typically produced under licence.

Translations

a farmer paying rent with crops to the landowner

• Bulgarian: изполичар (bg) m (izpoličar)
• Catalan: masover (ca) m
• Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 佃農／佃农 (diàn nóng)
• Dutch: deelpachter, deelbouwer
• Finnish: vuokraviljelijä (fi)
• French: métayer (fr) m, métayère (fr) f, colon (fr) m, méger (fr) m
• Galician: parceiro (gl), foreiro
• German: Naturalpächter m, Halbpächter m, Teilpächter m
• Greek: μεσιακάρης (el) m (mesiakáris), κολίγας (el) m (kolígas)
• Italian: mezzadro (it)
• Polish: połownik m
• Portuguese: parceiro rural m, meeiro (pt) m
• Russian: испольщик (ru) (ispolʹščik), издо́льщик (ru) m (izdólʹščik)
• Spanish: aparcero (es)