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Sharecropping

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, sharecropping means: A farming arrangement in which a cultivator gives the landholder an agreed share of the crop.

In Turkish: ortakçılık, ürün paylaşımlı kiracılık

How it is used

Specify who supplied land, tools and seed; crop sharing could operate under unequal conditions.

Example sentences

  1. The contract set the landlord's share under the sharecropping arrangement.

    Payment is linked to the harvest rather than a fixed cash rent.

  2. Poor yields intensified disputes within the sharecropping system.

    A crop-based division exposes both parties to harvest variation.

Common collocations

  • a sharecropping contract
  • sharecropping system
  • peasantA person who lives in the countryside and farms a small piece of land with family labour, often paying rent, taxes or labour services to a landowner or the state.
  • agrarianRelating to farming, land and the people who work it, or describing a society or economy based mainly on agriculture.

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