CROP FAILURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crop failure mean? 

• CROP FAILURE (noun)
  The noun CROP FAILURE has 1 sense:

1. the failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus

  Familiarity information: CROP FAILURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROP FAILURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("crop failure" is a kind of...):

failure (lack of success)

 Context examples 

They found that maize, or corn, was the most susceptible to crop failure, with climate variability causing 18 per cent of growth volatility globally between 1980 and 2010.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)