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share⋅crop

  [shair-krop]
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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -cropped, -crop⋅ping.
to farm as a sharecropper.
Origin:
1865–70, Americanism; back formation from sharecropper
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share·crop   (shâr'krŏp')   
v.   share·cropped, share·crop·ping, share·crops

v.   intr.
To work as a sharecropper.
v.   tr.
To work (land) or grow (crops) as a sharecropper.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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