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Crop failure   /krɑp fˈeɪljər/   Listen
Crop failure

noun
1.
The failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus.





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"Crop failure" Quotes from Famous Books



... of truth in it. Certainly it was the fact of the case that the owner depended more upon his lion's cut of the swag which the trailing jackals amassed than upon the intake at the ticket windows. Bad weather might kill his business for a week; a crop failure might lame it for a month; but the graft was as sure as anything graftified can be. When the runaway youth, Vince Marr, inserted himself beneath the protecting wing of this patron he knew exactly whither his ultimate ambitions ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb


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