crop
noun · verb
Simple meaning
A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
krahpIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈkɹɑp
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
The output of something in a season
“The latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores.”
agriculture
A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
A collection of people or things appearing together
“The annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas.”
figurative
A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
The lashing end of a whip.
The act of cropping.
verb
transitive
To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
transitive
To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
“She wanted her hair cropped short.”
transitive
To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
intransitive
To yield harvest.
transitive
To mow, reap or gather.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B1 · Intermediate
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: (agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
Used this way, crop is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It turns up most in finance or economics contexts.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Finance/economics
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How It’s Used
The word’s distinct uses, one example each.
Outputnoun
“The latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores.”
Collectionnoun
“The annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas.”
Cutverb
“She wanted her hair cropped short.”
More ways to use crop
- “The latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores.”noun
- “The annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas.”noun
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Word Family
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Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
The dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft).
The failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus.
Appear at the surface.
Appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
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