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
As demand grew, so did European plantations across Latin America, fueled by the labor of enslaved Africans.
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Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2025
Urbanization, mining, palm oil plantations and small farms played a part.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
This relatively new trail—established in 2018 by the nonprofit Asociación Mar a Mar—travels through coffee plantations and rainforests, over the Continental Divide, and among tiny villages that rarely see tourists.
—Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2025
Then, in the early 1970s and the decades after, many forests were logged and then cleared for palm oil plantations, until more than one-fifth of the total area of Sabah was planted with oil palms, according to a 2022 study published in the journal Land Use Policy.
—Mihir Zaveri, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantation. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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