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How to pronounce reap in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms glean, harvest
Type of collect, garner, gather, pull together
Has types cut
Derivation reaper
Type Words
Synonyms draw
Type of gain, derive
Verb group draw

Examples of reap

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People you reap what you sow, in plain English you get exactly what you deserve.
From the washingtontimes.com
Before the doom and gloom, however, investors can reap the benefits of the boom.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The rule that we reap what we sow is a Divine Law from which there is no escape.
From the ecocentric.blogs.time.com
Spreading your money around should reap good returns while minimizing your risk.
From the newsobserver.com
In joining up with private-equity firms, BA may reap the benefits of a takeover.
From the economist.com
College teams also reap the benefits of wealthy conference television contracts.
From the forbes.com
But Ellison, who owns 22.9% of the company, stands to reap the biggest windfall.
From the forbes.com
Without a property tax, you'd reap the benefits even though rents stay the same.
From the economist.com
But many still worry that they could become a target if they reap big windfalls.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"
  • Get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"
  • On Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table. This entry is still needed to allow the process that started the (now zombie) process to read its exit status. ...
  • The Reap is an arcade shooter in a Zaxxon style. It was released in 1997 to the PC, developed by Housemarque Games Inc. and published by Take 2 Interactive Software Europe.
  • Reaped is a 2006 motion picture written and directed by Jonathan McDevitt.
  • (The Reaping (audio drama)) The Reaping is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
  • (The Reaping (soundtrack)) The Reaping is an 2007 American horror film, starring Hilary Swank. The film was directed by Stephen Hopkins for Warner Bros. and Dark Castle Entertainment. The music for the film was scored by John Frizzell.
  • A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut; To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting; To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works -- in a good or a bad sense; ...
  • (reaping) The last rites performed by a parent process on behalf of a deceased child process so that it doesn't remain a zombie. See the wait and waitpid function calls.