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- noun Plural form of
plantation .
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Examples
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On sugar plantations the profit is much more on each individual; but the risk is greater, and the deaths are generally calculated at one-third of the gang in ten years: this is the cause why slaves _on sugar plantations_ are so miserably fed and clad, for their being rendered less wretched would not make them less susceptible to the epidemic.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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Some people in what we, of course, call Rhode Island, say the word plantations is a hurtful reminder of slavery.
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Some people in what we, of course, call Rhode Island, say the word plantations is a hurtful reminder of slavery.
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Act directed that no merchandise from Asia, Africa, or America, including therein English "plantations," as the colonies were then styled, [17] should be imported into England in other than
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"The yield of production of Indonesian plantations is very low compared with Malaysian plantations."
Businesses Warm to Indonesia's Moratorium on Forest Clearing 2010
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Replanting long-term plantations is too difficult to finance, says Trevor Gifford, immediate past president of the Commercial Farmers Union.
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Replanting long-term plantations is too difficult to finance, says Trevor Gifford, immediate past president of the Commercial Farmers Union.
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"The yield of production of Indonesian plantations is very low compared with Malaysian plantations."
Businesses Warm to Indonesia's Moratorium on Forest Clearing 2010
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He said clearing peat swamps for plantations is "a double whammy."
Scientists Consider the Downside of Palm Oil | Impact Lab 2007
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The procreation or children of a Commonwealth are those we call plantations, or colonies; which are numbers of men sent out from the Commonwealth, under a conductor or governor, to inhabit a foreign country, either formerly void of inhabitants, or made void then by war.
Leviathan 2007
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