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Plantation
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- 1 A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers. countable, uncountable
"Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles."
- 2 garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth wordnet
- 3 An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate. countable, uncountable
"She used to bound through the plantations, her eye first caught by one object, then another, gazing round for something to admire and to love. Now she walked slowly, her eyes fixed on the ground, as if, in all the wide fair world, there was nothing to attract nor to interest."
- 4 a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America) wordnet
- 5 The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization. countable, historical, uncountable
"Had I plantation of this Iſle my Lord."
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- 6 an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas) wordnet
- 7 A colony established thus. countable, historical, uncountable
"Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former official name of Rhode Island, United States)"
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French plantation, from Latin plantātiō (“planting, transplanting”), from plantātus (“planted”), the perfect passive participle of plantāre, + action noun suffix -tiō.
See also for "plantation"
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