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a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
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The sharecropper worked the land in exchange for a portion of the crops produced.
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My grandpa used to be a sharecropper back in the day.
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The sharecropper hustled hard to make ends meet.
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Being stuck in that job felt like being a modern-day sharecropper, working tirelessly for little reward.