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Definition of low-hanging fruit
low-hanging fruit 
noun - uncountable
- of an entire task, the easy portions.
We've already tackled the low-hanging fruit, so to bring the project to completion is going to require some serious hard work.
- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
- See more words with the same meaning: easy, simple.
Last edited on Dec 07 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: a "traditional" business with a physical presence. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "work from home" or "working from home". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "small office / home office". | |
| Definitions include: a lucrative endeavor that requires little work. | |
| Definitions include: to do nothing of value. | |
| Definitions include: a residence or work place. | |
| Definitions include: a couch on which prospective employees are expected to provide sexual favors in order to secure the position. | |
| Definitions include: an unenthusiastic worker, especially in an office setting. | |
| Definitions include: "executive." | |
| Definitions include: general malaise felt on the first day back to work after the weekend. | |
| Definitions include: money used to start a business. | |
| Definitions include: to invent ideas and solutions, usually by coming up with as many as possible while not rejecting any out of hand. | |
| Definitions include: shortened form of "business." | |
| Definitions include: easy or unchallenging. | |
| Definitions include: According to Oxford University Press Blog: | |
Other terms relating to 'easy, simple': | |
| Definitions include: easy. | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool". | |
| Definitions include: very easy. | |
| Definitions include: easy or unchallenging. | |
| Definitions include: a contraction for "give me". | |
| Definitions include: to happen automatically, in a way that appears almost magical. | |
| Definitions include: being "a cinch", i.e. easy. | |
| Definitions include: something that's easy. | |
| Definitions include: an easy task. | |
| Definitions include: displeasing. | |
| Definitions include: interjection indicating something will be easy. | |
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Other terms relating to 'fruit': | |
| Definitions include: a child or children. | |
| Definitions include: a homosexual. | |
| Definitions include: Dangling testicles | |
| Definitions include: a heterosexual with many homosexual friends. | |
| Definitions include: a crazy person. | |
| Definitions include: occurs when a male presses genitalia up against a window for all to see | |
| Definitions include: a statement (true or untrue, doesn't matter) made to negatively alter one person's opinion of another. | |
Other terms relating to 'hang': | |
| Definitions include: very high handlebars on a motorcycle or bicycle. | |
| Definitions include: To have a gathering of fecal matter stuck to one's anus that will not dislodge itself. | |
| Definitions include: see leave (one) hanging. | |
| Definitions include: to have sex. | |
| Definitions include: To have sex with a woman. | |
| Definitions include: having sex. | |
| Definitions include: to relax, usually with other friends; "chill". | |
| Definitions include: riding the surf board with all 10 toes over the edge of the board | |
| Definitions include: riding a surf board with 5 toes hanging over the front of the board | |
| Definitions include: to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: Going to the bathroom. | |
| Definitions include: to make a left turn. | |
| Definitions include: the need to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: to loiter. | |
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Other terms relating to 'low': | |
| Definitions include: DL is short for down-low, which basically means to keep things under-wraps, to keep a secret or lay low. | |
| Definitions include: To keep quiet. | |
| Definitions include: to have the zipper on one's trousers unzipped. | |
| Definitions include: to get a haircut. | |
| Definitions include: To have sex with a woman. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt", an insult used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. | |
| Definitions include: to hide. | |
| Definitions include: keep it a secret. | |
| Definitions include: Lower Alabama | |
| Definitions include: to hide. | |
| Definitions include: "Low Down Brother" refers to a bi-sexual male, specifically one who has oral sex with other men, but who is very hetero-sexual acting and dressing. | |
| Definitions include: to hide. | |
| Definitions include: someone who is high on marijuana who instead saying "I am high" they say the complete opposite of high, meaning they are very high. | |
| Definitions include: a session of communication that has little information relative to its time-length. | |
| Definitions include: a mean-spirited response. | |
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