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| fod·der [ fóddər ] |
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1. animal food: hay, straw, or similar food for livestock
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2. material for stimulating response: people, ideas, or images that are useful in stimulating a creative or critical response
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3. expendable people or things: people or things regarded as the necessary but expendable ingredient that makes a system or scheme work
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usually used in combination
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 case studies seized upon as thesis fodder
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transitive verb (past and past participle fod·dered, present participle fod·der·ing, 3rd person present singular fod·ders) |
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feed livestock: to give food to livestock
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| [ Old English fōdor< Indo-European, "to feed"] |
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| fod·der·er noun |
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