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plantation

noun as in large farm

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Small farmers whose plots are close to soy plantations say they disrupt local weather patterns and make it harder to grow their crops.

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If açaí production was expanded into many industrial-size plantations, it could start to cause exactly the same problems that people like Damien are trying to solve.

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Padre Tiago has threatened to eradicate American influence and to nationalize the United Fruit Co. plantations.

In western Paraná, Brazil, the Avá Guarani people have lost much of their ancestral lands to vast soy plantations.

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For most of the 20th century, the prevailing view of Southern plantations was one of feudal estates with accordingly primitive systems for the extraction of labor and thereby profit from bonded toil.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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