- [countable] a plant that is grown in large quantities, especially as food
- Sugar cane is an important crop on the island.
- What are the benefits of growing GM crops?
- food crops
- crop yield/production
- to grow/plant/harvest crops
- The crops are regularly sprayed with pesticides.
Collocations FarmingFarmingGrowing food and raising animalssee also cash crop, catch crop- plant trees/seeds/crops/vines/barley
- grow/produce corn/wheat/rice/fruit
- plough/(North American English) plow land/a field
- sow/harvest seeds/crops/fields
- spread manure/fertilizer on something
- cultivate/irrigate/water/contaminate crops/plants/fields/land
- damage/destroy/lose your crop
- ripen/pick fruit/berries/grapes
- press/dry/ferment grapes
- grind/thresh grain/corn/wheat
- raise/rear/keep chickens/poultry/cattle/pigs
- raise/breed/feed/graze livestock/cattle/sheep
- kill/slaughter livestock
- preserve/smoke/cure/salt meat
- run a fish farm/an organic dairy farm
- engage in/be involved in intensive (pig/fish) farming
- use/apply (chemical/organic) fertilizer/insecticides/pesticides
- begin/do/conduct field trials of GM (= genetically modified) crops
- grow/develop GM crops/seeds/plants/foods
- fund/invest in genetic engineering/research
- improve/increase crop yields
- face/suffer from/alleviate food shortages
- label food that contains GMOs (= genetically modified organisms)
- eliminate/reduce farm subsidies
- oppose/be against factory farming/GM food
- promote/encourage/support organic/sustainable farming
Extra ExamplesTopics Farmingb2- Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.
- Crops are sprayed with highly toxic chemicals to prevent insect damage.
- Fodder crops are used to feed livestock.
- Isolated communities were extremely vulnerable if crops failed.
- It takes three to five years for a new plantation to bear a crop.
- Most of the farmers grow arable crops.
- Rice is a staple crop for more than half of the world's population.
- Rivers burst their banks and flooded standing crops.
- Summer flash floods destroyed the crops.
- to boost crop yields
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- agricultural
- cash
- commercial
- …
- cultivate
- grow
- produce
- …
- grow
- fail
- rotation
- damage
- failure
- …
- crop of
- [countable] the amount of grain, fruit, etc. that is grown in one season synonym harvest
- a fall in this year’s coffee crop
- Australia's wheat crop is likely to be lower than forecast this year.
- We are looking forward to a bumper crop (= a very large one).
- We had a very good crop of apples last year.
Extra ExamplesTopics Farmingb2- a crop of carrots
- a record crop was harvested
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- abundant
- bumper
- excellent
- …
- get
- harvest
- have
- …
- crop of
- [singular] crop (of something) a group of people who do something at the same time; a number of things that happen at the same time
- the current crop of trainees
- She is really the cream of the crop (= the best in her group).
- a crop of disasters/injuries
- [countable] a short whip used by horse riders
- a riding crop
- [countable] a very short hairstyle
- She has her hair cut in a short crop.
- [singular] a crop of dark, fair, etc. hair/curls hair that is short and thick
- He had a thick crop of black curly hair.
- (specialist) a part of a bird’s throat that has the shape of a bag where food is stored before it passes into the stomachTopics Birdsc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- agricultural
- cash
- commercial
- …
- cultivate
- grow
- produce
- …
- grow
- fail
- rotation
- damage
- failure
- …
- crop of
plants for food
group of people
whip
hair
of bird
Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th cent. there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to sense (1) and senses referring to the top of something.
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