cash crops
cash crops is the plural of cash crop.
Meaning of cash crop
Noun
cash crop (plural cash crops)
- A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
- 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.1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170
- Synonyms:
- money crop, profit crop
Questions about cash crops
- What is cash crops the plural of?
- Cash crops is the plural of cash crop.
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