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Crop Failure

Definition: Crop Failure

Crop Failure

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Use in Literature: Crop Failure

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Then crop failure, drought, and flood were no longer little deaths within life, but simple losses of money.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Non-Fiction Usage: Crop Failure

Subject	Topic	Quote
Women	Ghana	Most accused witches are older women, often widows, who are identified by fellow villagers as the cause of difficulties, such as illness, crop failure, or financial misfortune. (references)
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Modern Translation: Crop Failure

Language		Translations for "crop failure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vit i keq. (various references)

Czech		neúroda. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不作 (poor crop). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふさく (chisel and ax, elaboration, lucubration, poor crop). (various references)

Pig Latin		opcray ailurefay

Romanian		recoltã slabã (small harvest). (various references)

Russian		неурожай (bad harvest, corn failure, harvest failure). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		loša žetva (bad harvest). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Crop Failure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-l-o-p-r-r-u"
	-2 letters: opercular.
	-3 letters: capriole, carriole, croupier, epifocal, opercula, peculiar, procural, profiler.
	-4 letters: auricle, caliper, calorie, careful, cariole, caroler, coalier, copulae, copular, coruler, coupler, courier, curlier, failure, farceur, flareup, flueric, fluoric, frailer, loricae, lucifer, parlour, peculia, peloria, peloric, peroral, procure, profile, replica, roupier.
	-5 letters: aculei, apercu, capful, carful, caroli, carpel, carper, carrel, coaler, coiler, colure, copier.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography

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