cultivate
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- IPA (key): /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: cul‧ti‧vate
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- (transitive) If you cultivate a crop, you grow it.
- By 3,600 years ago, farmers were cultivating cereals at a high altitude.
- (transitive) If you cultivate land, you grow crops on it.
- The government gave farmers the right to cultivate more than one million hectares of unused farmland.
- (transitive) If you cultivate a relationship, an image, or a skill, you develop it.
- An additional important strategy noted was the importance of cultivating relationships with people.