sharecrop
verb
share·crop
ˈsher-ˌkräp 
sharecropped; sharecropping; sharecrops
: to farm as a sharecropper
: to farm (land) or produce (a crop) as a sharecropper
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Farm labor was restricted to the sharecropping system, which resembled slavery.
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Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
Her parents, whose families both have histories in sharecropping in the South, were high school teachers.
—Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2023
My grandmother, who left school after fourth grade to sharecrop Georgia fields, is 46 and has already spent more than two thirds of her life cleaning white people’s homes.
—Hafizah Augustus Geter, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2023
Most of that Southern land returned to white owners, who allowed former slaves to sharecrop for pennies on the dollar.
—Stephanie Toone, ajc, 19 Oct. 2020
The story of Matilda and her family highlights the horrors of slavery, the abuses of the US South’s sharecropping system, the injustices of segregation and the suffering of black farmers during the Great Depression.
—Fox News, 27 Mar. 2020
The history of this great nation is rife with methods to disenfranchise people of color — from sharecropping to segregation to redlining to predatory lending.
—Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020
The union-run facility is spread over 265 acres of previous farmland on Foley Road that was sharecropped by two families many years ago.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2019
Born on a sharecropping farm, Mr. Lewis has spent his life fighting for racial integration and civil rights, rising through the ranks of the civil rights movement before taking office.
—Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
Her parents, whose families both have histories in sharecropping in the South, were high school teachers.
—Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2023
My grandmother, who left school after fourth grade to sharecrop Georgia fields, is 46 and has already spent more than two thirds of her life cleaning white people’s homes.
—Hafizah Augustus Geter, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2023
Most of that Southern land returned to white owners, who allowed former slaves to sharecrop for pennies on the dollar.
—Stephanie Toone, ajc, 19 Oct. 2020
The story of Matilda and her family highlights the horrors of slavery, the abuses of the US South’s sharecropping system, the injustices of segregation and the suffering of black farmers during the Great Depression.
—Fox News, 27 Mar. 2020
The history of this great nation is rife with methods to disenfranchise people of color — from sharecropping to segregation to redlining to predatory lending.
—Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020
The union-run facility is spread over 265 acres of previous farmland on Foley Road that was sharecropped by two families many years ago.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2019
Born on a sharecropping farm, Mr. Lewis has spent his life fighting for racial integration and civil rights, rising through the ranks of the civil rights movement before taking office.
—Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
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Word History
Etymology
back-formation from sharecropper
First Known Use
1893, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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sharecrop
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share·crop
ˈshe(ə)r-ˌkräp
ˈsha(ə)r-
sharecropped; sharecropping
: to farm or produce as a sharecropper
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