as in colony
a settlement in a new country or region
the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter
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Recent Examples of plantation
Covering over 16 acres on the ruins of one of the island's many former sugar plantations, this lush garden is within a 15-minute drive of Frederiksted and brings new life to a historic destination.
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2026
Railroads reached into coffee growing areas and sugar plantations of the northeast, but there never has been a national net.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026
Set on a seven-mile stretch of pink sand beach on Eleuthera—one of the archipelago’s quieter, more rugged islands—the property was first constructed in 1923 as a two-bedroom home on a pineapple plantation.
—Annie Daly, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2026
The arm and head of the swimmer below resemble the cartographic contours of Puerto Rico and Cuba, whose sugar plantations depended on slave labor until as late as 1886.
—James Meyer, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
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colony
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The apparent goal is to turn Venezuela into a de facto colony for the financial benefit of a few.—
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That's the thing that could happen in a different age where there were a lot of colonial powers and Greenland was a colony at that time and there were British colonies all over Africa.—
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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantation. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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