{
    "term": "crop",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a plant that is grown in large quantities, especially as food",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Sugar cane is an important crop on the island."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What are the benefits of growing **GM crops**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**food crops**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**crop yield/production**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **grow/plant/harvest crops**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The crops are regularly sprayed with pesticides."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Crops are sprayed with highly toxic chemicals to prevent insect damage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fodder crops are used to feed livestock."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Isolated communities were extremely vulnerable if crops failed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It takes three to five years for a new plantation to bear a crop."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the farmers grow arable crops."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Rice is a staple crop for more than half of the world's population."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Rivers burst their banks and flooded standing crops."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Summer flash floods destroyed the crops."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to boost crop yields"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Farming"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["agricultural", "cash", "commercial"],
                "verb + crop": ["cultivate", "grow", "produce"],
                "crop + verb": ["grow", "fail"],
                "crop + noun": ["rotation", "damage", "failure"],
                "preposition": ["crop of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the amount of grain, fruit, etc. that is grown in one season",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a fall in this year’s coffee crop"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Australia's wheat crop is likely to be lower than forecast this year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are looking forward to a **bumper crop** *(= a very large one)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had a very good crop of apples last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a crop of carrots"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a record crop was harvested"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "harvest",
            "topics": ["Farming"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["abundant", "bumper", "excellent"],
                "verb + crop": ["get", "harvest", "have"],
                "preposition": ["crop of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a group of people who do something at the same time; a number of things that happen at the same time",
            "sensetop": "crop (of something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the current crop of trainees"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is really **the cream of the crop** *(= the best in her group)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **crop of disasters/injuries**"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a short whip used by horse riders",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a riding crop"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a very short hairstyle",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She has her hair cut in a short crop."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "hair that is short and thick",
            "sensetop": "a crop of dark, fair, etc. hair/curls",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He had a thick crop of black curly hair."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Appearance"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "a part of a bird’s throat that has the shape of a bag where food is stored before it passes into the stomach",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Birds"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["agricultural", "cash", "commercial"],
                "verb + crop": ["cultivate", "grow", "produce"],
                "crop + verb": ["grow", "fail"],
                "crop + noun": ["rotation", "damage", "failure"],
                "preposition": ["crop of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/krɒp/",
                "audio": "cr/crop/crop__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/krɑːp/",
                "audio": "cr/crop/crop__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th cent. there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to sense (1) and senses referring to the top of something."
}