sharecropper
14
8.4
- noun
- /ˈʃɛrˌkrɒpər/
- Archaic
:
aparcero
- For much of his life, R.L. Burnside was a sharecropper in the hills of north Mississippi, growing crops for a share of the profits.
- laborers and sharecroppers
- black sharecroppers
- sharecropper system
Just to frame it a little, let me say that my father grew up in North Carolina and Sandhills there where his parents were sharecroppers who grew Peaches and tobacco.
- Just to frame it a little, let me say that my father grew up in North Carolina and Sandhills there where his parents were sharecroppers who grew Peaches and tobacco.
- Shaw was a sharecropper in Alabama, got deeply involved in the Sharecroppers Union, a radical organization that flirted with communism.
- John Lewis was the child of a sharecropper, ended up going to Nashville for college where he got involved in desegregation of lunch counters.
Examples
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Landowners took advantage of this offer, and as a result, small farmers and sharecroppers across the South were thrown off their land.
Academic text (1999) -
Lou: As the progeny of sharecroppers, Cedric, you should know life isn't fair!
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And before the war, I was a sharecropper, like my father before me.
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Working for a sharecropper in San Saba.
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The son of two former sharecroppers with only a second grade education each.
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JEREMIAH: My grandfather was a sharecropper.
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The grandson of a sharecropper, Thomas grew up in a poor family in Pinpoint, Georgia.
Academic text (1991) -
John Lewis was the child of a sharecropper, ended up going to Nashville for college where he got involved in desegregation of lunch counters.
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Shaw was a sharecropper in Alabama, got deeply involved in the Sharecroppers Union, a radical organization that flirted with communism.
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My grandfather was a sharecropper who worked hard to provide for his family on someone else's land.
Synonyms
898
1.0
A person who grows crops or raises animals on a farm
3
3.7
A farmer who rents land from a landowner instead of owning it
1
7.4
A farmer who works someone else's land and gives the owner part of the harvest
1
7.5
A small farmer who grows and gathers food plants
A farmer who works land owned by someone else and gives the owner part of the crop
How Wealthy
22
7.9
42
2.5
4
3.9
7
6.4
- UK
1
5.8
3
3.7
- Archaic
14
8.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sharecropper comes from the simple parts share ('part') and crop ('harvest') plus -er for a person. So, a sharecropper is someone who 'shares the crop' with the landowner and gives part of the harvest as rent.