sharecropper

English

Noun

sharecropper (plural sharecroppers)

A person who enters an agreement with a land owner to farm the land and then pay a portion (share) of the produce as rent. One who sharecrops.

Translations

a farmer paying rent with crops to the landowner

Catalan: masover (ca) m
Dutch: deelpachter, deelbouwer
Finnish: vuokraviljelijä (fi)
French: métayer (fr) m, métayère (fr) f, colon (fr) m, méger (fr) m
German: Naturalpächter m, Halbpächter m

Greek: μεσιακάρης (el) m (mesiakáris), κολίγας (el) m (kolígas)
Italian: mezzadro (it)
Portuguese: parceiro rural m
Russian: испольщик (ru) (ispolʹščik), издо́льщик (ru) m (izdólʹščik)
Spanish: aparcero (es)

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