sharecropper

noun

share·crop·per ˈsher-ˌkrä-pər

: 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

Examples of sharecropper in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web For Tanya, the daughter of a sharecropper, the thoughtless room decoration served as a harmful reminder of her family’s past. —

Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2024 But by the early twentieth century, the association of that crop with impoverished sharecroppers was an embarrassment to some southerners. —

Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2024 His grandmother was a sharecropper in Luxor, Arkansas, and instilled in his mother the importance of voting. —

Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2024 That meant that nearly a million tenant farmers and sharecroppers got kicked off the land. —

Meg Jacobs, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020 See all Example Sentences for sharecropper

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'sharecropper.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.