as in homesteader
a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops
grew up the child of a poor sharecropper
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Recent Examples of sharecropper
In fact, along with sharecroppers seeking new opportunities, many Black city-dwellers likewise moved north and west to escape Jim Crow.
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Sarah Rex, JSTOR Daily, 20 Aug. 2025
But the response drew criticism for the lack of direct federal money to help flood survivors and the treatment of Black sharecroppers and laborers.
—Susan L. Cutter, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2025
The rest went to his mama on their sharecropper 40 acres.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
While many narratives about Black Americans from this time period focus on southern sharecroppers and other cultural offshoots of slavery, The Gilded Age offers a peek inside another facet of Black life.
—Evan Nicole Brown, Architectural Digest, 25 July 2025
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Sarah Rex, JSTOR Daily, 20 Aug. 2025
But the response drew criticism for the lack of direct federal money to help flood survivors and the treatment of Black sharecroppers and laborers.
—Susan L. Cutter, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2025
The rest went to his mama on their sharecropper 40 acres.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 July 2025
While many narratives about Black Americans from this time period focus on southern sharecroppers and other cultural offshoots of slavery, The Gilded Age offers a peek inside another facet of Black life.
—Evan Nicole Brown, Architectural Digest, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sharecropper
Noun
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Americans who buy a house tend to think like homesteaders.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
11 Aug. 2025
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The original maze with a soundtrack composed by the Grammy-winning guitarist will drop visitors onto a rural farm where scarecrows seek vengeance on homesteaders for their past sins against Mother Nature.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
24 July 2025
Noun
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The role re-designer This confidence cultivator helps employees navigate new career paths without steering away from their sense of purpose.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Legacy cultivators often use heritage brands to root themselves in cannabis history and culture.—
Sara Payan,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Williams also recommends updating old containers and planters by adding fresh plantings or simple ferns.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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Some attendees were seasoned native planters.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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After more than an hour on the road, the team arrived at a cluster of trailers behind a long dirt path on a grower’s property in South Haven, tight quarters where farmworkers rest after long-hour shifts picking fruit under the Michigan sun.—
David Rodriguez Muñoz,
Freep.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Despite being legal, the illicit market is thriving, with only 38% of the cannabis consumed in California coming from licensed growers, according to a 2024 report released by the state Department of Cannabis Control.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Interlune wants its harvester to dig up a hundred tons of regolith an hour.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Wild rice harvesting is open to all Wisconsin residents with a wild rice harvester license.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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However, in contrast to the vision of free yeoman workers, historians have found that most laborers who arrived on the first ships were either indentured to individual masters or bound by some other kind of contract that limited their freedom.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025
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Likewise, the training staff has performed yeoman’s work tending to the Orlando native.—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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“Sharecropper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecropper. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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