0 to cut and collect a grain crop
1 to obtain or receive something as a result of your own actions:
2 to make a large amount of money or a big profit:
Outside shareholders reaped 25% of the dividends generated.
reap $35 million/£1.9 billion, etc. His company has reaped more than $800 million in federal contracts over the past five years.
reap benefits/rewards The Treasury has reaped rewards from rising house prices as its income from stamp duty and inheritance tax has soared.
3 to get the advantages of a particular situation:
reap (the) benefits/rewards For now, the drop in the dollar against the euro is allowing the U.S. economy to reap rewards.
Vigorous participation in the European Union is vital if the country wants to reap the benefits of globalization.
reap dividends The healthy eating program is reaping dividends in terms of promoting better awareness of health issues in the community.
One pepper farmer showed lack of interest in his crop, it became overgrown by weeds and nothing was reaped.
In expected value, it must equal the returns to be reaped from letting indirect selection work.
Historicism is always a risk, but it is one from which intellectual historians have reaped great rewards.
His hands were never dirtied; his brain never taxed; he simply reaped the benefits of other people's labor.
Of course, if a writer has the opportunity of reaping bountifully from her work, she is not expected to shy away from it.
Everyone is interested in selling high quality products and reaping higher the profits.
British policy has now reaped its just rewards.
Finally, we have reaped some benefit from the higher-order representation of the output.
