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Oxford 5000 vocabulary |A1|SPEAKING vocabulary car‧rot /ˈkærət/ noun
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Synonyms & Related Words carrot[noun]Synonyms: reward, dividend, guerdon, meed, plum, premium, prize
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English Dictionary car‧rot S3 /ˈkærət/
noun[
Date: 1400-1500;
Language: French;
Origin: carotte, from Late Latin, from Greek karoton]
1. [uncountable and countable] a long pointed orange vegetable that grows under the ground:
grated carrots carrot juice2. [countable] informal something that is offered to someone in order to try and persuade them to do something:
They have refused to sign the agreement despite a carrot of £140 million.3. carrot and stick informal a way of trying to persuade someone to do something by offering them something good if they do it, and a punishment if they do not:
the government’s carrot and stick approach in getting young people to find jobs [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
Collocations carrot nounI. vegetable ADJ. raw | baby | diced, grated VERB + CARROT eat, have | cook, prepare | peel, scrape | chop, dice, grate CARROT + NOUN top | cake | juice ⇒ Special page at
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carrot II. sth attractive offered to sb VERB + CARROT dangle, hold out, offer (sb) They dangled the carrot of a large salary in front of me. PHRASES a carrot and stick to adopt the carrot-and-stick approach (= to persuade sb to try harder by offering them a reward if they do, or a punishment if they do not)
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