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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grower
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The Soviet Union used to produce about 150,000 tonnes of tea a year, making it one of the biggest growers.
▪ The theory was that once the biggest grower had signed with the union, others would be forced to follow.
▪ Any advance, big tomato growers?
▪ However, El Nino was soon to prove too much even for the big growers and the Army Engineers.
fast
▪ They fry were fed on baby brineshrimp and although not fast growers they seemed to do well.
▪ The Memphis company is a fast grower, with profits increasing more than 20 % in each of the past two years.
▪ It is also a very fast grower.
▪ It cuts well, and splits beautifully, an burns even when it is green; and it is a fast grower.
■ NOUN
apple
▪ The $ 100 million that Congress approved last year for the apple growers could be only the beginning.
sugar
▪ However, Terrell of the sugar growers said their PACs gave only half as much as the users' PACs last year.
▪ Various exemptions and exclusions subsidize sugar growers or bee keepers.
▪ In fact, corn farmers probably have as big a stake in sugar quotas as do sugar growers!
▪ Nineteen PACs run by cane and beet sugar growers gave $ 846, 823.
tobacco
▪ Why not target subsidies to tobacco growers?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ potato growers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A group of growers, economists and public officials is studying the possible costs and compensation to farmers, he said.
▪ Can growers be persuaded to change their minds?
▪ However, Terrell of the sugar growers said their PACs gave only half as much as the users' PACs last year.
▪ If it were, the growers of tea and coffee would have a much easier job.
▪ One example of a grower who has one is Paul Steer, farming 350ha of sandy / clay loam in North Lincs.
▪ There are an estimated 100, 000 of these growers in North Carolina.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grower

Grower \Grow"er\, n. One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grower

"one who produces," mid-15c., agent noun from grow.

Wiktionary
grower

n. 1 A farmer; one who grows things. 2 Something that grows. 3 Someone or something who becomes more likeable over time 4 (context slang English) A man whose penis does not show its full size until it is erect.

WordNet
grower

n. someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil [syn: agriculturist, cultivator, raiser]

Wikipedia
Grower

Grower may refer to:

  • Farmer
  • Sharecropper
  • Stockgrower (disambiguation)

Usage examples of "grower".

But the growers took advantage of the newly arrived Anglos and hired many of them as scabs.

It was said that their union would forge a greater understanding between the workers and the growers, the Anglos and our people.

This was to find the Dream Miner and this companion, this Storm Grower, and see if they knew why the foul yellow crystals were being spread across the world.

The cane growers spent millions proclaiming that the penny-a-pound proposal was a new tax on consumersa complete lie, but it worked.

The fruit grower in every part of the country has his special species and pomological varieties from which to choose.

Several manufacturers have had their own buyers in certain places in the Tropics for some years, and it is generally agreed that this has acted as an incentive to the growers to improve the quality.

Darcy set up a small mushroom operation on Trox Island, but I was told, second-hand, by full-scale mushroom growers, that the Trox operation was too small to succeed.

Zoyd had been staying with planters he knew up by Holytail, beyond the coastal ranges and the yearlong fogs, in a valley where growing conditions were ideal about the last refuge for pot growers in North California.

The young in particular were aware of and informed about the world around them, and they would understand the realities of what they faced now that the white livestock growers, cattlemen and sheep men alike, coveted the Ute grazing lands.

Attorney Dexter Lehtinen sued Florida for letting growers pollute Everglades National Park.

The message of the suit was so simple: Make the growers quit fouling our water.

Why should the Okeechobee growers be allowed to do what no other private industry can?

The longer that cane growers refuse to clean up their waste and the more unfiltered scum they pump into the watershed, the greater the public backlash.

How considerate of the cane growers, not wishing to trouble government with the task of enforcing its own laws.

Backs to the wall, cane growers miraculously discover a way to keep 151 tons of phosphorus out of the Everglades!