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名詞

cash crop (plural cash crops)

1. (agriculture) A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.

   Synonyms: money crop, profit crop

   Hyponym: mortgage burner

   Coordinate term: subsistence crop

   • 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.

参照

• “cash crop”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.