লক্ষ্য করুন: এই এন্ট্রির অনুবাদ বর্তমানে মান পর্যালোচনার অধীনে রয়েছে, তাই কিছু বিষয়বস্তু সাময়িকভাবে শুধুমাত্র ইংরেজিতে প্রদর্শিত হচ্ছে।
এই এন্ট্রিটি এখনও আপনার ভাষায় অনুবাদ করা হয়নি, তাই নিচে মূল লেখাটি দেখানো হচ্ছে।
sharecropper
This term carries a heavy historical and socio-economic weight, particularly in the context of the American South after the Civil War. It describes a system of debt peonage where the tenant is often trapped in a cycle of poverty due to high interest rates on supplies provided by the landowner.
While the word is a neutral descriptor of a farming arrangement, it frequently evokes connotations of exploitation, systemic inequality, and agrarian struggle. It is distinct from a simple tenant farmer, as the rent is paid in produce rather than currency.
Meanings
Examples
The sharecropper spent the entire day weeding the cotton rows under a scorching sun.
I cannot afford new seeds this year because the landowner took most of my profit.
Many freedmen became sharecroppers after the Civil War in hopes of eventually owning their own land.
Many freedmen became sharecroppers after the Civil War in hopes of eventually owning their own land.
He lived as a sharecropper in a small wooden shack at the edge of the plantation.
The cycle of debt often trapped the sharecropper in a state of permanent poverty.
Do you think the sharecropper will get a fair portion of the harvest this time?
She remembered her grandfather as a hardworking sharecropper who never owned a single acre.
She remembered her grandfather as a hardworking sharecropper who never owned a single acre.
The agreement stipulated that the sharecropper would give half of the corn to the owner.