Meaning & use
cash crop
A crop grown mainly to sell for profit rather than for the farmer's own use.
See it in a sentence
Coffee became the region's main cash crop after the old sugar plantations closed.
Farmers switched from subsistence farming to a single profitable cash crop.
A note on using this word
Cash crop contrasts with subsistence crops, which farmers grow mainly to feed their own families rather than to sell.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
subsistence crop
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