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plantation

noun as in large farm

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In it, Deen visits a plantation that was once owned by a distant ancestor of hers named Billy.

From Salon

Although the study focused on one forest in Northern California, it has implications across the Western U.S., where this kind of “plantation”-style logging is common.

Where forests are converted to plantations of oil palm or other crops, the consequences are even more serious, with many orangutans starving.

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"He'd taken names of genuine plantations but no-one involved in the actual plantations had heard they were selling to The Balmoral and that's because none of them had produced any tea from their plants."

From BBC

The Nazis even drain the Mediterranean Sea to produce vast, fertile plantation land to be tilled by slaves.

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