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Definition of Crop failure
1. Noun. The failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus.
Generic synonyms: Failure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crop Failure
Literary usage of Crop failure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"Among the incidental benefits which rotation brings are the following: (1) reducing
the hazard from crop failure; (2) the more complete character of the ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"While famines are, of course, always preceded by local crop failure, almost every
... Since crop failure always is at least the local cause of these awful ..."
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