unharvested

adjective

un·​har·​vested ˌən-ˈhär-və-stəd How to pronounce unharvested (audio)
: not harvested
an unharvested crop
unharvested fields

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Similar reports are emerging from California's Central Valley, America's fruit and vegetable basket, where worker shortages are forcing farm owners to leave crops unharvested. Shayna Harris, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 In his first term, Trump’s policies were linked to unharvested crops, declining entrepreneurship, and slowed economic growth in immigrant-dependent sectors. Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025 There’s one strategy to business growth that is the low-hanging fruit, which often remains unharvested for far too many businesses. Todd Villeneuve, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 Not even farmers, when agribusiness destroyed their livelihoods in the 1950s, degraded themselves by lamenting unharvested ears of content. Joel Stein, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unharvested

Word History

First Known Use

1874, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unharvested was in 1874

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“Unharvested.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unharvested. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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