Definition of cash crop in English English dictionary
Any crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock
a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold. Cranberries have become a major cash crop. A crop, such as tobacco, grown for direct sale rather than for livestock feed. a crop grown in order to be sold rather than to be used by the people growing it subsistence crop subsistence
[ 'kash ] (noun.) 1596. modification of Middle French or Old Italian; Middle French casse money box, from Old Italian cassa, from Latin capsa chest; more at CASE.