sharecropping
noun [ U ] US uk/ˈʃeəˌkrɒp.ɪŋ/ us/ˈʃerˌkrɑː.pɪŋ/
（旧时在美国租用他人土地耕作并以一部分作物收益作为土地租金的）收益分成式耕种
the activity of renting land and giving part of the crop you produce on it as rent, especially in the past in the US
The rise of sharecropping was one of the many changes that came with the abolition of slavery. 收益分成式耕种的兴起是废除奴隶制所带来的诸多变化之一。
She was born into a poor sharecropping family. 她生在一个依靠收益分成形式耕种他人土地的贫苦家庭里。
See: sharecropper
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- If you didn't have an education, you were going to end up picking cotton or sharecropping.
- Sharecropping and tenant farming trapped families for generations.
- Johnson avoided the sharecropping life he seemed destined for and took to the road.