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fodder

Noun B1 – Intermediate

Food given to farm animals, or material that gets used, often carelessly, to support something else.

"The farmer stored enough fodder to last the cattle through winter."

"Fodder" is often used figuratively, as in "cannon fodder" or material that "becomes fodder for gossip."

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