breadbasket
- noun
- /ˈbrɛdˌbæskɪt/
- Africa has the potential to be a major breadbasket for global grain production.
Examples
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Here we are, winging our way across the breadbasket of America, on our way to picturesque Detroit.
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That's why developed countries have such a huge impact; we're the breadbasket of the world!
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The American breadbasket, the West.
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Richard observed that the U.S., Canada, and Australia are the world's breadbasket.
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The U.S., with its great Midwest, which used to be the breadbasket of the world!
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Remember that in the Nineteenth Century, Ukraine was the breadbasket of not just Russia, but also of Europe.
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This is America's great breadbasket - the Midwest.
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Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of Africa, producing and exporting vast amounts of food.
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The drought in America's breadbasket is intensifying at an unprecedented rate, experts are warning.
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Then there is America's temperate climate and fertile soils that traditionally make it the world's breadbasket.
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Etymology
Breadbasket uses the picture of a basket full of bread to show a place that gives a lot of food, so a region that grows most of a country's grain is like a 'basket' of bread for the nation. That's why we call a farming area the 'breadbasket' of a country.