Meaning of seed corn in English
(Definition of seed corn from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
seed corn | Business English
seed corn for/of sth These small operations are the seed corn of what STP hopes will become large enterprises.
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Examples of seed corn
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Farmers were forcibly deprived not only of seed corn, but of food.
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For example, a farmer may decide after an experimental trial of hybrid corn that he prefers to return to his previous seed corn.
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This is intended to lead to the production of a multitude of short compositional 'sketches' providing seed corn for future composing work.
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We must remember that the industry is the seed corn of any manufacturing base.
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This country cannot continue to eat its seed corn and survive.
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It is never a good thing to eat the seed corn, and that is what we will do if we start spending capital as income.
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One either eats the seed corn or plants it.
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These grants, it will be realized, were only in the nature of seed corn.
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This is the seed corn for the future of the industry, but only 32 students are currently taking film and television freelance training courses.
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To cut research and development is indeed to eat the seed corn.
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In my opinion, the insurance industry in particular has provided the seed corn for industry and for other developments in this country.
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Investment in plant and machinery is the seed corn of future wealth creation.
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For far too long, we were eating the seed corn.
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We have to sow the seed corn in the directions where we think aviation will go.
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We are not selling the seed corn, we are giving it away.
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