Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with crop in American Collocation
crop
noun
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Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
important/main
Tax revenues were assessed in quantities of the staple crop, rice.
large/successful
Last year’s favourable monsoon resulted in a bumper crop.
grown for money
The national economy is mainly dependent on three cash crops, which comprise 95 percent of their agricultural exports.
Reeds, white seed, and oziers were all highly profitable crops.
grown without chemicals
At that distance there is low risk of contamination between GM and organic crops.
with changed genes
Transgenic crops have been perceived to carry unacceptable risks.
plant a crop
GM crops have been planted at 49 farms.
grow a crop
Keeping animals requires more land than cultivating crops.
collect a crop when it has grown
The site was excavated directly after the potato crop was harvested.
destroy a crop
His family will starve if insects or worms destroy his crops.
supply water to a crop
Farmers use the water from the lake to irrigate their crops.
grow successfully
The Joads were lured by the promise of work picking the crops that thrived in the Californian climate.
fail to grow
When the potato crop failed, hardship followed.