agricultural colony

collocation in English

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agricultural
adjective
uk
/ˌæɡ.rɪˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us
/ˌæɡ.rəˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
used for farming or relating ...
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colony
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒl.ə.ni/us
/ˈkɑː.lə.ni/
a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country that is often ...
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(Definition ofagriculturalandcolonyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The later was a man of vision and wanted to make the island into anagriculturalcolony.
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The aim was to establish anagriculturalcolonywhere people with epilepsy could live and work.
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It is considered anagriculturalcolony, having about 230 km (23,000 ha).
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Its purpose was to be anagriculturalcolony.
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Theagriculturalcolonyslowly grew as the colonists got married and leased additional land.
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In the summer of 1935, she suffered a more serious attack of malaria during her stay at her white house in theagriculturalcolony.
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Hugo was a man of vision and wanted to make the island into anagriculturalcolony.
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Commanders convicted of atrocities or other serious crimes, such as drug trafficking, will get away with sentences little longer than two years, probably in agricultural colonies.
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As distinct from hospitals for the mentally ill, they were based on agricultural colonies.
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Some 650,000 more people were settled and 2,000 agricultural colonies formed for them.
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It is a very serious matter, and there seems to be no permanent cure for these cases unless they are taken in hand at some of these agricultural colonies.
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Montefiore also built a printing press and a textile factory, and helped to finance several agricultural colonies.
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He was credited with the founding of agricultural colonies and the introduction of vaccination as a preventive of smallpox.
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He developed military agricultural colonies ("tuntian") to support his army.
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Thus, not settled in agricultural colonies, but stayed in the cities in greater numbers than other immigrants.
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A significant number of immigrants settled in the countryside in the interior of the country, especially the littoral provinces, creating agricultural colonies.
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Novorossiya changed during the beginning of the 19th century due to the intensive movement of colonists of various nationalities, who rapidly created towns, villages and agricultural colonies in the area.
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