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reaping

USREE-ping/ˈɹiːpɪŋ/

Noun pluralreapings

2 meanings of reaping

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of reap.

    After years of patient training, the team is finally reaping the benefits.

    The workers spent the week reaping barley with scythes.

    Note

    Reap simply adds -ing. Off the farm the form is busiest in figures of speech such as reaping the rewards or reaping the benefits, and the harvest need not be welcome: a careless firm can be reaping the consequences. Programmers have a use of their own, in which a parent process reaping a finished child clears it from the process table.

  2. 2
    nouncountable or uncountable
    The act of gathering a crop by cutting it, or of receiving what one's own actions have earned.

    In the old days the whole village turned out for the reaping.

    The farm's ledgers record its reapings going back more than a century.

    Similarharvest, harvesting

    Note

    Its natural partner is sowing: sowings and reapings frame the farming year from seed to harvest, and the pair carries easily into talk of actions and what they bring back. Counted, reapings are separate harvests, which is how a farm's ledgers can list them year by year.

reaping is a form of reap

reap, verb: To obtain or receive something as a reward for what one has done, whether the outcome is good or bad. Full entry

Forms
reapreaps he/she/itreaping -ing formreaped past tense, past participle
Spelling
reap → reaping: add -ing

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