Plantation
Pronunciation
- US IPA: /plænˈteɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Origin
From Latin plantÄtiÅ ("planting, transplanting"), from plantÄtus ("planted"), the perfect passive participle of plantÄre, + action noun suffix -tiÅ.
Full definition of plantation
Noun
plantation
(plural plantations)- Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
- 2013-06-29, Unspontaneous combustion, Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze†has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
- Area where trees are planted for commercial purposes.
- The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Caribbean.