SHARECROPPER


Meaning of SHARECROPPER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌkrä-pər ]

noun

Date: 1923

: a tenant farmer especially in the southern United States who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.