plantation
noun
plan·ta·tion
plan-ˈtā-shən 
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the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter
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Now, the decimation of the environment and indigenous people across the world, from the palm oil plantations of Indonesia to the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has reached the shores of Great Nicobar.
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M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
The 1774 Alexander Rock House, homesite of a small Revolutionary Era plantation, turns 250 this year.
—Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
According to the San Diego Zoo, most pygmy hippos living in American zoos have ancestry that ties back to Billy, a pygmy given to President Calvin Coolidge in 1927 from American tire mogul Harvey Firestone, who owned a rubber plantation in Liberia.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Gullah Geechee people are descendants of West and Central Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations on the Sea Islands of the lower Atlantic states, including part of north Florida.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
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M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
The 1774 Alexander Rock House, homesite of a small Revolutionary Era plantation, turns 250 this year.
—Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
According to the San Diego Zoo, most pygmy hippos living in American zoos have ancestry that ties back to Billy, a pygmy given to President Calvin Coolidge in 1927 from American tire mogul Harvey Firestone, who owned a rubber plantation in Liberia.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Gullah Geechee people are descendants of West and Central Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations on the Sea Islands of the lower Atlantic states, including part of north Florida.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plantation. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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plantation
noun
plan·ta·tion
plan-ˈtā-shən
1
: a group of plants and especially trees planted and cared for
2
: a settlement in a new country or region : colony
3
: a planted area
especially
: an agricultural estate worked by laborers
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