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		Definition of sharecropper in English: sharecroppernounˈʃɛːkrɒpəˈʃɛrˌkrɑpər North American A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.  Example sentencesExamples -  Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.
 -  And life was almost as bleak for white tenant farmers and sharecroppers as it was for slaves, who often worked alongside them in the fields.
 -  He is currently working on the impact of the agricultural depression on tenants and sharecroppers.
 -  There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers.
 -  We join the story in the Deep South where Carl's father is a hard-bitten sharecropper on a miserable dirt farm, trudging behind a team of mules in the summer swelter, pushing a hand plow.
 -  For example, in 1941, the Supreme Court invalidated a California criminal statute aimed at excluding indigent sharecroppers and tenant farmers during the Depression.
 -  The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours, fellow farmers and sharecroppers.
 -  Born between the early 1890s and the 1930s, all grew up poor, most came from farming families, and many were sharecroppers.
 -  Given that the book's climax describes a showdown between sharecroppers and planters, one might imagine that class constituted a major fissure in the county's history.
 -  Many tenants subrented their farms to sharecroppers or hired others to work for them, so that their economic interests often more closely resembled those of farm owners than farm workers.
 -  As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, sharecroppers and tenant farmers were driven from the land.
 -  This meant white farm owners were paid to let their land sit idle, often resulting in the eviction of sharecroppers and tenant farmers, a significant number of whom were African American.
 -  But there's a limited amount of stuff to harvest, and bringing in more sharecroppers and putting in longer hours isn't really going to pay off.
 -  Blacks who owned small farms and also rented or sharecropped were often identified as renters or sharecroppers in the census.
 -  Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
 -  Many lose their land and must become tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or wage-laborers for the better-off peasants who can afford fertilizers and some machinery.
 -  The book opens in 1874 in Delta, Louisiana, on the plantation where Walker's parents were sharecroppers.
 -  Maybe it was that I was raised in a sharecropper's farm or that I never owned anything until I bought that house, but I loved my little home.
 -  The great mass of nonowning farmers - tenants and sharecroppers - would be infinitely better off.
 -  Most African Americans in the cotton parishes worked as sharecroppers or tenants, closely supervised by plantation owners or managers.
 
 
 Derivatives   verbsharecropping, sharecropped, sharecropsˈʃɛːkrɒpˈʃɛrˌkrɑp [with object]North American (of a tenant farmer) cultivate (farmland) giving a part of each crop as rent.  one fifth of farmers sharecrop the land they till  Example sentencesExamples -  the lands were used for exploitative sharecropping
 - Agricultural land is owned individually or jointly, sharecropped, or rented, and the number of farmers and the amount of land under cultivation have declined consistently.
 - Blacks who owned small farms and also rented or sharecropped were often identified as renters or sharecroppers in the census.
 - Less than one-fifth of farmers lease or sharecrop the land they till.
 
 
 
    Definition of sharecropper in US English: sharecroppernounˈSHerˌkräpərˈʃɛrˌkrɑpər North American A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.  Example sentencesExamples -  Born between the early 1890s and the 1930s, all grew up poor, most came from farming families, and many were sharecroppers.
 -  For example, in 1941, the Supreme Court invalidated a California criminal statute aimed at excluding indigent sharecroppers and tenant farmers during the Depression.
 -  There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers.
 -  This meant white farm owners were paid to let their land sit idle, often resulting in the eviction of sharecroppers and tenant farmers, a significant number of whom were African American.
 -  The great mass of nonowning farmers - tenants and sharecroppers - would be infinitely better off.
 -  Given that the book's climax describes a showdown between sharecroppers and planters, one might imagine that class constituted a major fissure in the county's history.
 -  Most African Americans in the cotton parishes worked as sharecroppers or tenants, closely supervised by plantation owners or managers.
 -  Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
 -  But there's a limited amount of stuff to harvest, and bringing in more sharecroppers and putting in longer hours isn't really going to pay off.
 -  As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, sharecroppers and tenant farmers were driven from the land.
 -  Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.
 -  Many tenants subrented their farms to sharecroppers or hired others to work for them, so that their economic interests often more closely resembled those of farm owners than farm workers.
 -  We join the story in the Deep South where Carl's father is a hard-bitten sharecropper on a miserable dirt farm, trudging behind a team of mules in the summer swelter, pushing a hand plow.
 -  And life was almost as bleak for white tenant farmers and sharecroppers as it was for slaves, who often worked alongside them in the fields.
 -  He is currently working on the impact of the agricultural depression on tenants and sharecroppers.
 -  The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours, fellow farmers and sharecroppers.
 -  Maybe it was that I was raised in a sharecropper's farm or that I never owned anything until I bought that house, but I loved my little home.
 -  The book opens in 1874 in Delta, Louisiana, on the plantation where Walker's parents were sharecroppers.
 -  Blacks who owned small farms and also rented or sharecropped were often identified as renters or sharecroppers in the census.
 -  Many lose their land and must become tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or wage-laborers for the better-off peasants who can afford fertilizers and some machinery.
 
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