sharecrop

[ shair-krop ]

verb (used with or without object),share·cropped, share·crop·ping.
  1. to farm as a sharecropper.

Origin of sharecrop

1
1865–70, Americanism; back formation from sharecropper

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British Dictionary definitions for sharecrop

sharecrop

/ (ˈʃɛəˌkrɒp) /


verb-crops, -cropping or -cropped
  1. mainly US to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper

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