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fodder

fod·der [ fóddər ]


noun 
Definition:
 
1. animal food: hay, straw, or similar food for livestock

2. material for stimulating response: people, ideas, or images that are useful in stimulating a creative or critical response

3. expendable people or things: people or things regarded as the necessary but expendable ingredient that makes a system or scheme work ( usually used in combination )
case studies seized upon as thesis fodder



transitive verb  (past and past participle fod·dered, present participle fod·der·ing, 3rd person present singular fod·ders)
Definition:
 
feed livestock: to give food to livestock

[ Old English fōdor< Indo-European, "to feed"]

fod·der·er noun
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