as in colony
a settlement in a new country or region
the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter
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Recent Examples of plantation
Livingston now ran a grapefruit-and-coconut plantation on the island.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
And you guys shot some of it at an old plantation upstate.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 30 May 2025
With fewer than 400 individuals left in the wild, the Indochinese tiger is particularly vulnerable due to deforestation for plantations and infrastructure, as well as poaching.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
In East Kalimantan, officials have been pursuing policy reforms and working with plantation and forestry companies to reduce forests destruction to protect habitat for orangutans.
—Mary Nichols, The Conversation, 19 May 2025
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
And you guys shot some of it at an old plantation upstate.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 30 May 2025
With fewer than 400 individuals left in the wild, the Indochinese tiger is particularly vulnerable due to deforestation for plantations and infrastructure, as well as poaching.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
In East Kalimantan, officials have been pursuing policy reforms and working with plantation and forestry companies to reduce forests destruction to protect habitat for orangutans.
—Mary Nichols, The Conversation, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plantation
colony
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If a task can be performed in more than one way by equal peers working together—much in the way an ant colony or swarm of bees works—then the system is resistant to censorship and hardware faults and has service continuity due to economic sustainability.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Having multiple nest sites helps protect the colony.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
30 June 2025
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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantation. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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