sharecropper
noun
share·crop·per
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Definition of sharecropper
: a tenant farmer especially in the southern U.S. who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges
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The sharecroppers started meeting in churches to collect fees and dues for a lawyer and to organize. — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, "A massacre of blacks haunted this Arkansas city. Then a memorial tree was cut down.," 30 Aug. 2019 Martha grew up the child of itinerant sharecroppers who made little money and were often devastated by droughts and floods. — Bryce Covert, The New Republic, "The Myth of the Welfare Queen," 2 July 2019 An archival recording from the 1920s shows Uncle John Scruggs, born into slavery in 1855, playing the banjo next to a sharecropper shack. — al, "The 17th-century slave ship roots of country music," 2 Aug. 2019 In 1935, her great uncle was working to unionize sharecroppers in Lowndes County when he was murdered as part of a mob killing. — John Hammontree | [email protected], al.com, "Could a new monument heal Jefferson County’s racial divide?," 22 July 2019 The family lived on a farm, where Edith’s father, Robert, was a sharecropper; her mother, Mattie (Buice) Irby, was a domestic worker. — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, "Edith Irby Jones, 91, pioneering black doctor in the South," 2 Aug. 2019 The president threw his online jabs at Cummings, a Democrat and 68-year-old son of a sharecropper who has been a vocal critical against Trump’s border and immigration policies. — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, "Trump blasts Pelosi, Cummings in new round of Twitter fury about Baltimore," 28 July 2019 Tensions grew in the South, too, where sharecroppers began making money and buying land and homes. — Christina Maxouris, CNN, "100 years ago, white mobs across the country attacked black people. And they fought back," 27 July 2019 White men frustrated that the sharecroppers were organizing went on a rampage. — Washington Post, "In a small Arkansas town, echoes of a century-old massacre," 25 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sharecropper.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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sharecropper
noun
English Language Learners Definition 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
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