cash crop
cash crop · cash crops
zum Verkauf bestimmtes Agrarprodukt, Marktfrucht
A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestockA crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
» Algeria needs to grow more cash crops.
Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesA crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
Marktfrucht, zum Verkauf bestimmtes Agrarprodukt
More definitions
- a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
Examples
2 sentencesAlgeria needs to grow more cash crops.
Cotton was the most important cash crop in the American south.
Translations
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By meaning 1
crop grown for sale:
Forms
plural: cash crops| Singular | cash crop |
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| Plural | cash crops |
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