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plural of sharecropper
Synonyms of sharecroppers
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 sharecroppers
- crofters
- [chiefly British],
- croppers,
- gentlemen farmers,
- subsistence farmers,
- tenant farmers,
- yeomen
- homesteaders,
- nesters
- [West]
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for sharecroppers
- nonfarmers
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“Sharecroppers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecroppers. Accessed 28 Jul. 2021.
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