reap what you sow

reap | American Dictionary

reap
verb[ I/T ]
us/rip/
to obtain or receive something as a result of your own actions:
[ T ]They didn’t reap any benefits from that deal.
If you reap a crop, you cut and collect it.

reap | Business English

reap
verb[ T ]
uk /riːp/us
to make a large amount of money or a big profit:
Outside shareholders reaped 25% of the dividends generated.
reap $35 million/£1.9 billion, etc.His company has reaped more than $800 million in federal contracts over the past five years.
reap profits/returns/savings
reap benefits/rewardsThe Treasury has reaped rewards from rising house prices as its income from stamp duty and inheritance tax has soared.
to get the advantages of a particular situation:
reap (the) benefits/rewardsFor now, the drop in the dollar against the euro is allowing the U.S. economy to reap rewards.
Vigorous participation in the European Union is vital if the country wants to reap the benefits of globalization.
reap dividendsThe healthy eating program is reaping dividends in terms of promoting better awareness of health issues in the community.

Examples of reap

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One pepper farmer showed lack of interest in his crop, it became overgrown by weeds and nothing was reaped.
In expected value, it must equal the returns to be reaped from letting indirect selection work.
Historicism is always a risk, but it is one from which intellectual historians have reaped great rewards.
His hands were never dirtied; his brain never taxed; he simply reaped the benefits of other people's labor.
Of course, if a writer has the opportunity of reaping bountifully from her work, she is not expected to shy away from it.
Everyone is interested in selling high quality products and reaping higher the profits.
British policy has now reaped its just rewards.
Finally, we have reaped some benefit from the higher-order representation of the output.
In so doing, the auctioneer reaps a higher benefit than it should without the bidders knowing.
A rise in the enforceability of property rights might then lead to the monopoly gains from concentration being reaped.
We have then developed the cogen approach for offline specialisation, reaping the benefits of self-application without having to write a self-applicable specialiser.
There is to be ultimate advantage reaped in more prosperous, happier married life.
The networks and narratives constructed by chiefs and employees not only reaped profits of power and wealth, but helped to mitigate the volatility of colonial policy and personnel.
The social and financial burden of recent immigrants is disproportionately borne by the local government while advantages to receiving immigrants are reaped at the federal level.
The logical implication is that the national government reaps the blame or credit for provincial fiscal performance, creating incentives for opposition governors to abandon fiscal responsibility.
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