subsistence crop

noun [C]

specialized

Definition

› a crop that people grow to use or eat themselves, rather than to sell → Compare cash cropGroups of crop plants and economic plants

(Definition of subsistence crop noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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to do something without worrying about the risk or negative results

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