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sharecrop
[ shair-krop ]
- to farm as a sharecropper.
sharecrop
/ ˈʃɛəˌkrɒp /
- to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sharecrop1
1865–70, Americanism; back formation from sharecropper
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Example Sentences
His grandmother, who is in her 70s, is a steady presence, but she attended little school while growing up in a sharecropping family in South Carolina.
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