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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
    "His grandparents used to sharecrop cotton in the South"

Derived forms: sharecropped, sharecrops, sharecropping