verb
- to farm land owned by another person in exchange for a share of the crop produced
Usage: third person singular present tense of ‘sharecrop’
Examples
- He sharecrops cotton on his neighbor’s farm.
- The farmer sharecrops several acres of corn each season.
- She sharecrops tobacco and gives half the harvest to the landowner.
- Many families sharecropped during the Great Depression.
- The tenant sharecrops the land in exchange for housing.
- He sharecrops vegetables and sells his portion at the market.