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sharecropper

 

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Noun sharecropper has 1 sense
  1. sharecropper, cropper, sharecrop farmer - small farmers and tenants
    --1 is a kind of agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer

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Sharecropper

Noun

Definition: A tenant farmer who pays a share of the crop as rent, especially in the southern United States during the era of slavery and its aftermath.

Example Sentence: Many African Americans became sharecroppers after the Civil War to make a living.

Noun (Popular Usage)

Definition: A person who cultivates a piece of land owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crops produced.

Example Sentence: The sharecropper carefully tended to the crops, hoping for a bountiful harvest.

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