plantation
noun
plan·ta·tion
plan-ˈtā-shən 
Examples of plantation in a Sentence
the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter
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This book is not only a retelling of the crime—a story that Till’s family, among others, has already published—but also a rich and wandering history of the township in which Till died: the few square miles of plantations that helped birth both the blues and the Ku Klux Klan.
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The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Rather than growing crops that could sustain the local food supply, the Europeans who began arriving in the 1600s focused on exploitative extractive economic models and export cash crops through the plantation economy.
—Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
The enclave of dirt roads and modest homes was founded after the Civil War by freed slaves from an island plantation.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The island is home to about 70 full-time residents of the Hog Hammock community, many of them descendants of people enslaved at Sapelo plantations.
—John Deem, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
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The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Rather than growing crops that could sustain the local food supply, the Europeans who began arriving in the 1600s focused on exploitative extractive economic models and export cash crops through the plantation economy.
—Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
The enclave of dirt roads and modest homes was founded after the Civil War by freed slaves from an island plantation.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The island is home to about 70 full-time residents of the Hog Hammock community, many of them descendants of people enslaved at Sapelo plantations.
—John Deem, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plantation. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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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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