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sharecroppings

sharecroppings is the plural of sharecropping.

Meaning of sharecropping

Noun

sharecropping (countable and uncountable, plural sharecroppings)

  1. The system where a tenant farmer, especially in the southern United States, farms the land in exchange for a portion of the crops.
    • Slim came from sharecropping stock, his people farmed land but never owned it2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 363

Questions about sharecroppings

What is sharecroppings the plural of?
Sharecroppings is the plural of sharecropping.

Words near sharecroppings in the dictionary

  1. sharecrop
  2. sharecropped
  3. sharecropper
  4. sharecroppers
  5. sharecropping
  6. sharecroppings
  7. sharecrops
  8. shared
  9. shared and shared alike
  10. shared appreciation mortgage
  11. shared appreciation mortgages

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