sharecrop
verb
share·crop
| \ ˈsher-ˌkräp
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sharecropped;
sharecropping;
sharecrops
Definition of sharecrop
: to farm as a sharecropper
: to farm (land) or produce (a crop) as a sharecropper
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Examples of sharecrop in a Sentence
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Like Glen Campbell, Webb’s family business was sharecropping. — Longreads, "The Story of Country Music’s Great Songwriting Duo," 3 Sep. 2019 But her father, Marion, was determined to end the legacy of sharecropping in his family. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "Black Women Can’t Bridge the Gender Gap Alone: raceAhead," 22 Aug. 2019 Not all cotton farms had slaves; Newby said his family didn’t own slaves, while McMichen said his family began working in the fields during sharecropping days, after the slave era. — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al.com, "Cotton, once king in Alabama, still rules on these family farms," 14 July 2019 The shadow of slavery, sharecropping and Jim Crow has left black farmers in an especially precarious position. — Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, "How a Top Chicken Company Cut Off Black Farmers, One by One," 26 June 2019 The most common arrangement after the Civil War was a share tenant or sharecropping arrangement. — The Root, "Tracing Your Roots: How Did My Ancestors Come to Texas?," 12 Jan. 2018 My mom and her nine siblings grew up sharecropping in SC. — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, "As kids, they picked cotton and dreamed about the ‘mansion’ across the road. Now they own it.," 5 Feb. 2018 That is a tribute to Recy Taylor, a black woman from a rural Alabama sharecropping family who was gang-raped by six white men in 1944. — Bloomberg.com, "The Latest on Trump’s State of the Union," 30 Jan. 2018 Genus was a field hand on the farm that Elma Jesup sharecrops alongside her father, Juke, and a mute black girl, 14-year-old Nan Smith. — Ayana Mathis, New York Times, "A Novelist Dissects the Claustrophobic Evil of Jim Crow," 6 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sharecrop.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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sharecrop
verb
share·crop
| \ ˈsher-ˌkräp
\
\
sharecropped;
sharecropping
Kids Definition of sharecrop
: to farm another's land for a share of the crop or profit