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Definition of sharecropper

sharecropper

/ˈʃɛrˌkrɑː.pɚ/
share · crop · per
Plural:sharecroppers
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sharecropper Lexical Profile

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• noun

1

A tenant farmer who cultivates land owned by another and gives a predetermined portion of each crop as rent, especially in the southern United States after the Civil War.

Example

"The historical museum features preserved cabins and tools that illustrate the daily hardships of a nineteenth-century sharecropper."

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• Nearby Words

shareability
shareable
sharecrop
sharecropper
sharecropping
shareholder
shareholding

Word Origin & Etymology

First recorded in American English in the late 19th century, the word combines 'share' and 'crop' with the agent suffix '-er', arising during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in the southern United States.

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Wordmom. (2026). Definition of Sharecropper. In Wordmom Dictionary. Retrieved Nov 5, 2026, from https://wordmom.com/dictionary/sharecropper
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