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Verb: sharecrop (sharecropped,sharecropping)  'shehr`króp
Usage: N. Amer
  1. To participate in a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a share (part) of the crop raised on that land
    "Sharecrop tenants were forced to cultivate their fields intensively"

Derived forms: sharecropped, sharecropping, sharecrops

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