Metayer is a French term used to describe a farming system in which land is rented to a tenant who cultivates crops and shares the harvest with the landowner. There are several synonyms for this term, including sharecropper, tenant farmer, cropper, and renter. Sharecropper refers to a farmer who shares a portion of the crops with the landowner as rent. Similarly, a tenant farmer is an individual who rents land from the owner and pays in kind. Cropper implies a person who cultivates crops for a living. Finally, renter denotes a person who pays a landlord for the temporary use of property. All these terms essentially describe the same agricultural arrangement, and are commonly used interchangeably.