Collocations for carrot - noun
1. vegetable
ADJ.
raw | baby | diced, grated
VERB + CARROT
eat, have | cook, prepare | peel, scrape | chop, dice, grate
CARROT + NOUN
top | cake | juice
2. sth attractive offered to sb
VERB + CARROT
dangle, hold out, offer (sb)
They dangled the carrot of a large salary in front of me.
They dangled the carrot of a large salary in front of me.
PHRASES
a carrot and stick
to adopt the carrot-and-stick approach (= to persuade sb to try harder by offering them a reward if they do, or a punishment if they do not)
to adopt the carrot-and-stick approach (= to persuade sb to try harder by offering them a reward if they do, or a punishment if they do not)