sharecropping

English

Etymology

From share +‎ cropping

Noun

sharecropping (countable and uncountable, plural sharecroppings)

1. 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

Derived terms

• digital sharecropping

Translations

system

• Dutch: deelpacht f
• French: métayage (fr) m
• German: Naturalpacht f, Halbpacht f
• Hindi: बटाईदारी (baṭāīdārī), बटाई (hi) f (baṭāī)
• Italian: mezzadria (it) f
• Japanese: 寄生地主制 (きせいじぬしせい, kiseijinushisei)
• Korean: 소작인 (ko) (sojagin)
• Polish: połownictwo n
• Portuguese: parceria rural f
• Russian: издо́льщина (ru) (izdólʹščina)
• Sicilian: mitatarìa f
• Spanish: aparcería (es) f

Verb

sharecropping

1. present participle and gerund of sharecrop