noun
Meaning 1
The growing of wheat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- Improvements may easily be imagined which would annihilate vast portions of the productively invested wealth of individuals; such (e. g.) as a mechanical invention that superseded railways in England, or a development of trade that rendered English wheatgrowing unprofitable: and economic changes of this kind, though smaller in degree, are continually occurring.
- Thus, while the recent fall in the value of English wheat, in consequence of the development of foreign production and trade, has led to a marked diminution in the area of wheatgrowing land in England, I cannot find that it has led to anything like an equally discernible change in the amount of capital economically applicable to the land that still grows wheat.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided