fodder
/ˈfɒdə(r)/noun
उच्चारण फ़ॉडर
चारा
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[U]
food for horses and farm animals
चारा
- fodder for cattle
- Farmers store dry fodder for their buffaloes before the monsoon.
- The drought left villagers short of fodder for their cattle.
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- She cut green fodder from the field every morning.
- Cows eat dry fodder when there is little grass.
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[U] disapproving
people or things that are considered to have only one use
(केवल) उपयोग की वस्तु, ईंधन
- cannon fodder
- fodder for gossip
- The scandal became fodder for the evening news.
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- Young soldiers were treated as cannon fodder in many wars.
- His mistakes gave his rivals plenty of fodder to laugh at.
AaSpelling
fod·der
?Which word?
Keep the animal-food words together: fodder, feed, forage (food that animals find for themselves), hay (dried grass), silage (grass stored and fermented for winter), chaff (husks of grain).
पशु-आहार के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: fodder, feed, forage (जानवरों द्वारा स्वयं खोजा भोजन), hay (सूखी घास), silage (सर्दी के लिए संग्रहीत और किण्वित घास), chaff (अनाज का भूसा)।
“Collocations, idioms and sayings
Cannon fodder (soldiers who are treated as unimportant and sent to die in war), fodder for gossip (material for gossip).
Collocation अक्सर पूछा जाता है: cannon fodder (युद्ध में मरने भेजे गए महत्वहीन माने जाने वाले सैनिक), fodder for gossip (गपशप की सामग्री)।
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General knowledge
The fodder scam in Bihar involved the illegal withdrawal of money meant for animal fodder.
बिहार के चारा घोटाले में पशुओं के चारे के लिए निर्धारित धन की अवैध निकासी हुई।