crop

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"And if they do, they sue those farmers for their entire crop.

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Quick take

the yield from plants in a single growing season

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of crop gathered in one view.

noun

the yield from plants in a single growing season

noun

a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

noun

a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crop.

noun

the yield from plants in a single growing season

noun

a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

noun

a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"

noun

the output of something in a season; "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"

noun

the stock or handle of a whip

noun

a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

verb

cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"

verb

prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"

verb

yield crops; "This land crops well"

verb

let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

verb

feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"

verb

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

See also: snip, clip, trim, lop, dress, prune

Example sentences

"And if they do, they sue those farmers for their entire crop.

So, you enter a contract to sell your crop at a fixed rate long before harvest comes along.

"Parson kills an animal under the guise of crop protection and to feed a village.

The planters of the crop decided that what happened was that my sisters boyfriend must of stolen it to sell.

Mainly from the recent crop, but those bad seeds kinda ruin the whole "work for a random anonymous YC company!

I generally plant seeds once every fortnight during the early part of the year, to make sure everything doesn't crop at once!

Indeed, traps and issues abound for founders in setting up their companies, in funding them, and in dealing with a whole host of legal issues that will crop up.

* What's a piece of functionality that tends to crop up on lots of projects that you'd never implement yourself if you had the option of using a library?

That's why the starting salaries march in lockstep -- no BigLaw firm can afford to let people think that the cream of the crop from Harvard Law is being hired by their competitors.

When you coddle lazy or bad developers, you end up breeding an entire crop of developers who end up creating terrible legacy systems that will plague us for years to come.

I love the fact that there are people, who when faced with photographs sent from a robot on mars, will crop out all the bits of image with mars in them, so they can get a better look at the knots used to tie all the cables down.

Many in the poorest classes can't afford a computer or a smartphone and with the web being a wonderful resource with the potential to transform the life of its users, Mozilla saw that it needed to focus on those that are not attended by the current crop of entry level smartphones.