CARROT


Meaning of CARROT in English

noun

1 vegetable

ADJECTIVE

▪ raw

▪ cooked , steamed

▪ baby

▪ chopped , diced ( esp. BrE ), grated , shredded ( AmE ), sliced

VERB + CARROT

▪ eat , have

▪ cook

▪ peel

▪ chop , dice , grate , slice

CARROT + NOUN

▪ top

▪ cake

▪ juice

▪ stick

2 sth attractive offered to sb

VERB + CARROT

▪ dangle , hold out , offer (sb)

They dangled the ~ of a large salary in front of me.

PHRASES

▪ a ~ and stick

to adopt the carrot-and-stick approach

(= to persuade sb to try harder by offering them a reward if they do, or a punishment if they do not)

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