Cryptic crossword clue
The more they cut down the more they gain 10

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word HARVESTERS

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What does HARVESTERS mean?

HARVESTERS noun
  1. A person who gathers the harvest.
  2. A machine that gathers the harvest.
  3. A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
  4. A North American butterfly, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America
  5. Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores

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