carrot
ka ruht
- n deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
- n perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
- n orange root; important source of carotene
- n promise of reward as in "carrot and stick";
used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote
- The carrot? The patient would get to pocket some of the firm's substantial savings.
- Neither the stick nor the carrot may actually have been necessary: Having long muzzled the independent media and maintaining tight control over the political process, the Kremlin .
- The Bush Administration dangled the assistance last month as a carrot in front of Kim: if North Korea delivered a "satisfactory" declaration on its entire nuclear weapons program .