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Definition of sharecrop
intransitive verb
: to farm as a sharecropper
transitive verb
: to farm (land) or produce (a crop) as a sharecropper
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Smith, who quit school in the third grade to sharecrop on an Arkansas farm, has secured a fairly stable life for his family.
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The film is muscular and sprawling, telling the long and complicated story of two families sharing the same fraught space: a Mississippi Delta farm, owned by a white family and worked on, for generations, by a sharecropping black family.
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Two years later, the book — about the abuse and spiritual triumph of a black woman in the sharecropping American South — was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg and featured the screen acting debuts of Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
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Origin and Etymology of sharecrop
back-formation from sharecropper
SHARECROP Defined for Kids
sharecrop
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verb
share·crop
\ˈsher-ˌkräp\
Definition of sharecrop for Students
sharecropped
;sharecropping
: to farm another's land for a share of the crop or profit
sharecropper
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