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Workers on a tobacco plantation in South Africa, where the climate suits these large-leafed plants belonging to the nightshade family. The leaves are dried, and cured, before being processed into tobacco products.

Large farm or estate where commercial production of one crop – such as rubber (in Malaysia), palm oil (in Nigeria), or tea (in Sri Lanka) – is carried out. Plantations are usually owned by large companies, often multinational corporations, and run by an estate manager. Many plantations were established in countries under colonial rule, using slave labour.

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City in Broward County, southeastern Florida, USA, 10 km/6 mi west of downtown Fort Lauderdale; population (1990) 66,700. One of the largest residential suburbs in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale area, it also has some light industry. Many of its inhabitants are retired. The city was incorporated in 1953, and expanded at its greatest rate in the 1970s.



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I had a plantation on the peninsula, and I wanted a white overseer.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
"She died on the last plantation two months ago, and she died once before that when you were working for me last year," said the planter, who knew something of the ways of nativedom.
From Mine Own People by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Directly before him, across the twelve-mile channel, lay Florida Island; and, farther to the right, dim in the distance, he could make out portions of Malaita--the savage island, the abode of murder, and robbery, and man-eating--the place from which his own two hundred plantation hands had been recruited.
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