noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cotton field/farmer/plantation etc
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Texas produced half of the US cotton crop.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Coffee stealing from large plantations provides an example.
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It bordered a large plantation , some of which had been owned by Michelin.
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Follow the track up the hill to the large forestry plantation .
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Others he told that he had inherited a large plantation in his home state.
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As well as providing the bulk of labour for large plantations , they carried out menial tasks in Colombo and other urban centres.
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The family also controls a large grape plantation near Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora.
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Even a large plantation of 200 to 6000 hectares usually has only two or three suitable nest sites.
new
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We will, of course, have to erect rabbit-proof fencing around all the new plantations .
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I often have a little walk along the new plantation there.
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The charges relate to trees cleared for a new plantation .
old
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Then, I remembered, as children we played on the ruins of the old plantation sugarmill.
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The place looked more like an old plantation house.
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It looked as though it had been woven like the baskets which were used to collect tea from the old plantations .
rubber
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They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away.
■ NOUN
banana
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The sun that shines. Banana plantations creeping up the hill.
coffee
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In the eighteenth century, for example, coffee plantations were established.
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We drove past the coffee plantations of Santa Tecla and down into the lowlands.
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By the mid-nineteenth century, coffee plantations had largely been abandoned.
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It was a proven fact that the rebel bases were spread out towards the Kivoga coffee plantations .
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Even an innocent-looking cup of coffee creates soil erosion because of over-production on coffee plantations , and chronic water pollution during processing.
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In the 1840s, when coffee plantations were established on a large scale, it expanded into the central highlands.
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He's been a farmer, a pilot, a director of coffee plantations and an army officer.
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He will be staying at a coffee plantation on the edge of town.
conifer
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The problem is exacerbated by the increase in conifer plantations .
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I often see foxes, roe deer and red squirrels in the conifer plantation there.
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This piece of woodland contrasts dramatically with the conifer plantation on the other side of the bridge.
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Conservationists are unhappy about the prospect of conifer plantations taking over more wilderness areas of Britain.
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There are extensive conifer plantations and a nature reserve.
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There are both native woodland and conifer plantations which gives a rich mosaic of habitats for wildlife.
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The road maintains a high level above the Sound of Sleat, although views are obstructed in places by dense conifer plantations .
owner
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They built houses like those of the plantation owners they once worked for.
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Many plantation owners exploited their female slaves and ignored their dark-skinned offspring.
sugar
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Sweetness and plight Slavery on sugar plantations is a thing of the past.
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A disused sugar plantation is now the site of thriving communal maize plots.
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Sadly, most never make it past the sorting stage and instead wind up as fire-lighters at a nearby sugar plantation .
worker
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Oh, and plantation workers sometimes earn as little as 25 cents a day ... These are sick jokes.
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Worst hit are the hundreds of thousands of landless plantation workers , whose livelihood has disappeared.
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Coffee is cheap because the plantation workers and their families are subsidizing it.
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In mid-August about 500 citrus plantation workers were dismissed after striking over overtime allowances.
■ VERB
work
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The railways brought coal to fuel the tea factories, and above all transported labour to work the plantations .
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In Maryland, a family of Catholics hired Hughes to work on their plantation .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a coffee plantation
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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DeVore's own plantation was in the northwest of this area, adjoining the garrison at Lodz.
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Gandhi felt that the size of the refund was less important than the plantation owners' consent to it.
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Many plantation owners exploited their female slaves and ignored their dark-skinned offspring.
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Rising on the left are the extensive plantations of Lael Forest.
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The plantations would be open to foreign acquisition but overall foreign ownership would be limited to 30 or 40 percent.
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The Cav simply agreed to stay away from his plantation .
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The Chalice Quilt was made by slaves on a Texas plantation in 1860 in anticipation of a visit from an itinerant bishop.
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The industrial action quickly spread to transport and municipal workers and workers on tea, sugar and tobacco plantations.