BREAD BASKET


Meaning of BREAD BASKET in English

also breadbasket

( bread baskets)

If an area or region is described as the bread basket of a country, it provides a lot of the food for that country because crops grow very easily there. It therefore produces wealth for the country.

The north-west became the country’s bread-basket.

N-COUNT : usu with poss

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