cash crop

1. 1.

   a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)

   Broadercrop

Questions about cash crop

What does cash crop mean?

cash crop means "a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)".

Is cash crop a common word?

cash crop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.