Occupational vs Cropper - What's the difference?
occupational | cropper |
Of, relating to, or caused by an occupation
a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 185:
a person who nurtures and gathers a crop
a variety of plant producing a good harvest
A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
As an adjective occupational
is of, relating to, or caused by an occupation.As a noun cropper is
a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper.As a proper noun Cropper is
{{surname|A=An|English occupational|from=occupations}} for a cropper.occupational
English
Adjective
(-)- Boredom is an occupational hazard if you are a checkout girl.
Derived terms
* occupational hazardcropper
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’
Etymology 2
a bird's cropEtymology 3
an agricultural cropNoun
(en noun)- That potato I grew last year was a good cropper .
