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Farm, in a way
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sharecrop
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vb. 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.
Usage examples of sharecrop.
I, for example, not without considerable sacrifice on my part, put my peasants on the quitrent system and have given them land for sharecropping.
I pay a boy to run to town for whatever I cannot grow here on the land my daddy sharecropped for Odum when he was alive.
Traditional financing mechanisms such as usury credit, futures sales, and sharecropping -- whose costs to the peasantry are well-known -- are coming into use again.
Amber says slowly, pausing for a moment to spawn spectator threads to run down the book and all three movie versions of Nineteen Eighty-Four, followed by the sharecropped series of sequel novels.
The trouble with sharecropping back on the Other Side hadn't been the basic idea of trading labor on someone else's fields for a portion of the harvest and a place to live.
The following day Scarlett drove out to give the sharecropping farmers notice to vacate.