sugar plantation

collocation in English

meaningsofsugarandplantation

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sugar
noun
uk
/ˈʃʊɡ.ər/us
/ˈʃʊɡ.ɚ/
a sweet substance especially from the plants sugar cane and sugar beet, used to make food and ...
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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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(Definition ofsugarandplantationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Hippo valley is an estate encompassed by the triangle estate and the mkwasini estate, all of them producers ofsugarplantation.
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The last majorsugarplantationclosed on the island closed during the 1990s.
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Gamble lived in the mansion and used it as the headquarters of his extensivesugarplantation.
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The island also suffered severe drought between 1837 and 1847, which madesugarplantationalmost impossible to sustain.
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He was a shareholder of a bank and of a number of different companies and in 1871 he bought a largesugarplantation.
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The averagesugarplantationis very small indeed, around five acres.
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They themselves have considerable adjustments to make, more particularly as so many of them come into the hurly-burly of our industrial life from, perhaps, asugarplantation.
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The ruin probably dates from thesugarplantationera, although the fortification of the property with cannon may suggest an earlier date.
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The ruin probably dates from thesugarplantationera, but may be earlier.
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She spent her formative years on her father'ssugarplantation.
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The workablesugarplantationrequired a large investment and a great deal of heavy labour.
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A museum exists today highlighting thesugarplantationhistory.
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It has always been asugarplantationhouse.
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The most important of these estates was asugarplantationwith an "encomienda" that provided the labor needed to run the estate.
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American sugar companies had an advantage over the localsugarplantationowners.
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It was only when the hacienderos inhabited the area and change the basakan into asugarplantation.
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And it is significant for association with thesugarplantationand the provision of goods to its workers.
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He managed the ranch and converted it to asugarplantationstarting in 1877, and built a mill in 1881.
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