harvests

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of harvest.

   Successive poor harvests left the region facing severe food shortages.

   Record grain harvests pushed prices down across the market.

   Note

   The plural counts what the singular often leaves uncountable. Harvest can name the gathering, the crop gathered, or the season, and in the plural it usually counts crops or seasons one after another: successive harvests, record harvests. The figurative sense of reward or consequence takes the plural as well. The same spelling is also the present-tense verb. After an article or adjective it is the noun.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of harvest.

   Each fall, the cooperative harvests its apples and ships them to market.

   The combine harvests several acres of corn in a single morning.

   Note

   The present-tense form that goes with he, she, it or a singular noun subject. It carries every sense of the verb. A farm harvests wheat, a fishery harvests fish while keeping the population healthy, and a team harvests a gain. Most uses take an object. Without one, it means being busy bringing in the crop, as in she harvests all autumn.

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