plantation
noun/plɑːnˈteɪʃn/
/plænˈteɪʃn/
- a large area of land, especially in a hot country, where crops such as coffee, sugar, rubber, etc. are grown
- a banana/coffee plantation
- plantation workers/owners
- Hundreds of enslaved people used to work on the plantations.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- coconut
- coffee
- cotton
- …
- work
- work on
- own
- …
- owner
- worker
- economy
- …
- a large area of land that is planted with trees to produce wood
- conifer/forestry plantations
- a plantation of oaks
- Most of these conifer plantations will be felled over the next 10 years.
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting the action of planting seeds): from Latin plantatio(n-), from the verb plantare ‘to plant’.
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