cash crop

English

Noun

cash crop (plural cash crops)

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

   Synonym: money crop

   Hyponym: mortgage burner

   • 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.

Translations

crop grown for sale

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經濟作物 / 经济作物 (zh) (jīngjì zuòwù)

• Dutch: handelsgewas (nl) n, exportgewas n, uitvoergewas n
• Finnish: rahakasvi (fi)
• German: zum Verkauf bestimmtes Agrarprodukt n
• Gujarati: રોકડીયો પાક (rokḍīyo pāk)
• Hindi: नकदी फसल (nakdī phasal)
• Irish: barr margaidh m
• Kannada: ವಾಣಿಜ್ಯ ಬೆಳೆ (kn) (vāṇijya beḷe)
• Korean: 현금작물(現金作物) (hyeon'geumjangmul)
• Malayalam: നാണ്യവിള (nāṇyaviḷa)
• Marathi: नगदी पिके (nagdī pike)
• Nepali: नगदे वाली (nagade wālī)
• Oromo: kaash kirooppii
• Spanish: agricultura de mercado f
• Tagalog: salapiing pananim
• Tamil: பணப்பயிர் (ta) (paṇappayir), காசுப்பயிர் (kācuppayir)
• Welsh: cnwd gwerthu m

See also

• subsistence crop

References

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