sharecroppernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈʃeəˌkrɒp.ər/us/ˈʃerˌkrɑː.pɚ/mainly USa farmer who rents land and who gives part of his or her crop as rent, especially in the past
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Farmers & farm workers
- croft
- farmer
- farmhand
- homesteader
- landholding
- market garden
- pastoralist
- peasant
- peon
- picker
- ploughman
- plowman
- rancher
- ryot
- smallholder
- squatter
- truck farm
- yeoman
sharecropping
noun [ U ] uk/ˈʃeəˌkrɒp.ɪŋ/us/ˈʃerˌkrɑː.pɪŋ/US