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Synonyms of sharecropper
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
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for sharecropper
- crofter
- [chiefly British],
- cropper,
- gentleman farmer,
- subsistence farmer,
- tenant farmer,
- yeoman
- homesteader,
- nester
- [West]
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for sharecropper
- nonfarmer
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“Sharecropper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecropper. Accessed 20 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of sharecropper was in 1923
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