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sharecropper

/ˈʃɛːkrɒpə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈʃɛːkrɒpə/

sharecropper

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

sha - rec - rop - per -> sharecropper

Myanmar meaning

(esp US) ,သီးစား။

Full entry

sharecropper /'ʃeǝkrɒpǝ(r)/ n (esp US )

သီးစား။

More examples

‘And life was almost as bleak for white tenant farmers and sharecroppers as it was for slaves, who often worked alongside them in the fields.’
‘Blacks who owned small farms and also rented or sharecropped were often identified as renters or sharecroppers in the census.’
‘This meant white farm owners were paid to let their land sit idle, often resulting in the eviction of sharecroppers and tenant farmers, a significant number of whom were African American.’
‘Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.’
‘He is currently working on the impact of the agricultural depression on tenants and sharecroppers.’
‘Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.’
‘The book opens in 1874 in Delta, Louisiana, on the plantation where Walker's parents were sharecroppers.’
‘We join the story in the Deep South where Carl's father is a hard-bitten sharecropper on a miserable dirt farm, trudging behind a team of mules in the summer swelter, pushing a hand plow.’
‘There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers.’
‘For example, in 1941, the Supreme Court invalidated a California criminal statute aimed at excluding indigent sharecroppers and tenant farmers during the Depression.’
‘Most African Americans in the cotton parishes worked as sharecroppers or tenants, closely supervised by plantation owners or managers.’
‘As southern cotton growers reduced production in return for federal payments, sharecroppers and tenant farmers were driven from the land.’
‘Many lose their land and must become tenant farmers, or wage-laborers for the better-off peasants who can afford fertilizers and some machinery.’
‘Given that the book's climax describes a showdown between sharecroppers and planters, one might imagine that class constituted a major fissure in the county's history.’
‘The great mass of nonowning farmers - tenants and sharecroppers - would be infinitely better off.’
‘Maybe it was that I was raised in a sharecropper's farm or that I never owned anything until I bought that house, but I loved my little home.’
‘The music that I grew up listening to was really raw music played by neighbours, fellow farmers and sharecroppers.’
‘But there's a limited amount of stuff to harvest, and bringing in more sharecroppers and putting in longer hours isn't really going to pay off.’
‘Born between the early 1890s and the 1930s, all grew up poor, most came from farming families, and many were sharecroppers.’
‘Many tenants subrented their farms to sharecroppers or hired others to work for them, so that their economic interests often more closely resembled those of farm owners than farm workers.’