sharecropping
US /ˈʃerˌkrɑː.pɪŋ/
UK /ˈʃeəˌkrɒp.ɪŋ/
名詞
分益小作
a system of farming in which a tenant farmer gives a part of each crop as rent
例:
•
After the Civil War, many former slaves turned to sharecropping to survive.
南北戦争後、多くの元奴隷が生き残るために分益小作に転じた。
•
The sharecropping system often kept farmers in a cycle of debt.
分益小作制度はしばしば農民を借金の連鎖に陥れた。