# reaping

Pronunciation: US say "REE-ping" /ˈɹiːpɪŋ/; UK

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of reap. — present participle and gerund of reap
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of reap. Use it after "is" or "are", or as the name of the action.
   - _After years of patient training, the team is finally reaping the benefits._
   - _The workers spent the week reaping barley with scythes._

## Noun

2. The act of gathering a crop by cutting it, or of receiving what one's own actions have earned.
   - Simple: Cutting and gathering a crop, or getting back what your actions 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._

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