и́сполу
rare #59073
adverb
- 1.
(rare) half and half, in halves, fifty-fifty
Всю добы́чу они́ дели́ли и́сполу.
They split the whole catch half and half.
Dated adverb; mostly in older or folk usage.
- 2.
(rare) on shares, for half the cropagriculture
Крестья́не бра́ли зе́млю и́сполу.
The peasants took the land on shares.
Historical: of a peasant renting land and giving the owner half the harvest.
Examples
Они договорились работать исполу, деля урожай.
They agreed to work the land on a sharecropping basis, dividing the harvest equally.
Землю здесь сдавали исполу местным крестьянам.
The land here was leased to local peasants on a sharecropping basis.
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Iron edited translation 1 month ago.
Lucian edited word type and stress 6 years ago.
