Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.
n.Barren or marginal farmland.
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Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.
n.Barren or marginal farmland.
The adjective has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
yielding little by great labor
Synonym: poor
Meaning #2:
of a bare living gained by great labor
Synonym: marginal
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