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)