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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesparceria agrícola
Pronunciation / Transliteration: par-seh-ree-ah ah-gree-ko-lah
"A parceria agrícola ainda é praticada em algumas regiões."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
"Many impoverished farmers in the American South entered into sharecropping agreements after the Civil War." - 2
Any similar arrangement of working for a share of the proceeds rather than for a fixed wage.
"The independent software developers engaged in a form of digital sharecropping with the dominant app store platform."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the combination of 'share' (from Old English scearu, meaning division or portion) and 'crop' (from Old English cropp, meaning the produce of harvested plants). The agricultural system emerged prominently in the post-Civil War American South and in various forms globally during periods of feudal and post-feudal land tenure restructuring.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Sharecropping" is said worldwide
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métayage
Transliteration: mey-ta-yahzh
"Le métayage était très répandu dans la France rurale d'autrefois."
Teilpacht
Transliteration: Tyl-pahkht
"Die Teilpacht war eine verbreitete Form der Landwirtschaft."
mezzadria
Transliteration: med-dzah-dree-ah
"La mezzadria ha caratterizzato la storia agricola italiana per secoli."
aparciería
Transliteration: ah-par-thee-eh-ree-ah
"La aparciería es un contrato agrario de larga tradición."
parceria agrícola
Transliteration: par-seh-ree-ah ah-gree-ko-lah
"A parceria agrícola ainda é praticada em algumas regiões."
बटाईदारी
Transliteration: bataidari
"भारत के कई क्षेत्रों में बटाईदारी कृषि प्रणाली का उपयोग किया जाता है।"
代耕制
Transliteration: dài gēng zhì
"分享耕作制度在历史上曾非常普遍。"
소작제
Transliteration: so-jak-je
"과거에는 많은 농부들이 소작제로 일했습니다."
小作制
Transliteration: kosakusei
"小作制はかつて多くの農村で見られる制度でした。"
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