plantation economy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofplantationandeconomy
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plantation
noun[C]
uk/plænˈteɪ.ʃən/us/plænˈteɪ.ʃən/
a large farm, especially in a hot part of the world, on which a particular type of crop ...
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economy
noun
uk/iˈkɒn.ə.mi/us/iˈkɑː.nə.mi/
the system of trade and industry by which the wealth of a country is made ...
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(Definition ofplantationandeconomyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the north the use of forced labour was central to sustaining theplantationeconomy: here differentiation took different forms but was no less pronounced.
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The issue of the renewal of this form ofplantationeconomyemerged as early as the late 1960s, with the ageing of the initial plantations.
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However, the village where the present research was conducted was never associated with aplantationeconomy.
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Thus, it is surprising that labour immigration-a process vital to the efficient functioning of theplantationeconomy-received practically no government attention for the better part of the nineteenth century.
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In this context, land rights and land transfers have been moulded by the interplay between migration flows, the dynamics of the smallholderplantationeconomy, and the rise of land markets.
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It was a backwardplantationeconomyand has never really got off the ground.
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It shared this aspect with other communities throughout theplantationeconomyof this era.
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The tourism sector paid better, and theplantationeconomycould only expand so far.
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The devastation of theplantationeconomyalso wreaked havoc on the small white communities in the countryside.
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Thus, despite these losses, the ruralplantationeconomymanaged to navigate the crisis and kept the community viable.
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A variety of other crops make up the rest of theplantationeconomy.
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While the tourism and industrial fishing industries were on a roll in the late 1990s, the traditionalplantationeconomyatrophied.
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It was this forced labor that provided the basis for development of aplantationeconomyand, by the mid-20th century, a major mining sector.
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Monoculture was thus increasingly capped by monopoly within theplantationeconomy.
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The expatriates brought a cottonplantationeconomyto the islands.
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In attempting to reconstruct theplantationeconomy, planters were anxious to control labor.
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The railway line has contributed much to the development ofplantationeconomyin this area.
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In this way, an extensiveplantationeconomydeveloped.
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