cash crop
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English
Noun
cash crop (plural cash crops)
- (agriculture) A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
- 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:
- So the matter rested until the Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Company was incorporated on August 8, 1877, appropriately displaying a bunch of hops on its seal, for these had become the principal cash crop in the area.
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Translations
crop grown for sale
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References
- “cash crop”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.