cultivation

cultivate | American Dictionary

cultivate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈkʌl·təˌveɪt/

cultivateverb[T] (GROW)

to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop:
He cultivated soybeans on most of the land.

cultivateverb[T] (DEVELOP)

to create a new condition by directed effort:
We’re trying to help these kids cultivate an interest in science.
To cultivate is also to try to become friendly with someone because that person may be able to help you:
to cultivate friendships

cultivation

noun[ U ]us/ˌkʌl·təˈveɪ·ʃən/
Simple changes in rice cultivation can reduce methane emissions.

cultivate | Business English

cultivate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/us
PRODUCTION
to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop:
Corn, or maize, is indigenous to Mexico and has been cultivated there for some 6,000 years.
to try to develop and improve something:
She has cultivated an image as a shrewd investor.
if you cultivate a relationship, you make a special effort to develop it, because you think it might be useful to you:
He cultivated business contacts in ten major cities.

cultivation

noun[ U ]
the cultivation of crops/the land
This course will help with the cultivation of key marketing skills.
If you wish to retain customers, you must work at the cultivation of the customer relationship.

Examples of cultivate

cultivate
I have noted that a strong party is one in which rank-and-file members are more concerned with collective reputations rather than cultivating personal reputations.
The land was cultivated, and the country became prosperous.
The amount, if any, and type of fertilizer used depended on the type of crops and trees cultivated.
Problems associated with the destruction of cultivated crops by herdsmen accessing grazing fields are bound to intensity.
In the case of lands cultivated with other crops, many transferred the lands above the ceiling limits to their relatives.
Once developed, the alien idea proved a potent motif for fictional explorations of the singularity or insignificance of humanity cultivated by the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
By 1961 he had rid himself of his intellectual, bespectacled look, cultivating instead a more friendly look in order to find a wider '^ ' audience.
Crystal himself has cultivated, and indeed par tly created, in his writings over the past three decades.
Here was one reason that friendship among men was to be prized and cultivated.
Previously cultivated plots were kept in the planting cycle in order to save labor time, though soil fertility was becoming exhausted.
First, regularity of strophic constructions and tight rhyme schemes are especially cultivated by the troubadours to impose structure on an unruly vernacular language.
Self-mastery did not bear down upon desire, but instead cultivated and operationalized it.
They have also cultivated 15 acres of swampy rice.
They established exclusive rights on the lands they cultivated, thereby excluding the indigenous communities from vast areas.
If it was janmi land, then they had to pay rent for the cultivating years and tax if cultivated for three consecutive years.
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