crop failure

1. 1.

   the failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus

   Broaderfailure

Questions about crop failure

What does crop failure mean?

crop failure means "the failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus".

Is crop failure a common word?

crop failure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.