cash crop

noun

: a readily salable crop (such as cotton or tobacco) produced or gathered primarily for market

Examples of cash crop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Once the state’s largest cash crop, tobacco was the beating heart of many family farms. — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

The quickest way to gain from the forest was to sell or burn the timber and put a cash crop in the ground. — James Whorton Jr, Longreads, 13 Oct. 2026

The result was a landscape repeatedly cleared and exhausted for cotton and other cash crops. — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026

Research shows that incorporating horticulture and expanding into cash crops raises farmers’ earnings, as does the rearing of livestock. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cash crop

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