sharecropping

From share +‎ cropping.

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.
   • 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 363:

     Slim came from sharecropping stock, his people farmed land but never owned it

• digital sharecropping

sharecropping

1. present participle and gerund of sharecrop