Meaning & use
Reaping
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Cutting and gathering a crop, or more broadly, receiving the results of one's actions or efforts.
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The farmers spent the whole week reaping the wheat.
After years of hard work, she is finally reaping the rewards.
A note on using this word
The idiom 'reap what you sow' comes from this agricultural sense and is often used to mean that consequences follow actions.
Words with a similar meaning
harvestinggathering
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Words with an opposite meaning
sowing
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