Meaning of plantation in English
(Definition of plantation from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
plantation | American Dictionary
Examples of plantation
plantation
Such a pricing policy has since become the deciding factor in the widespread establishment of plantations, and especially cocoa plantations.
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Interestingly, although there were significant linear relationships, the variables tended to cluster into two groups; forests and plantations.
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In the flight-interception-trapping, species richness and abundance were significantly higher in the forests than in the plantations in both sampling periods.
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In the case of insects that cause defoliation in both natural forests and plantations, outbreaks are most likely to occur in plantations.
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In their place, private estates and plantations dedicated to the production of coffee for exportation were created.
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The area is dominated by arable land, grazed and abandoned pastures, spruce plantations and deciduous woods.
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Table 2 also summarizes inputs for the management of plantations.
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Cotton and indigo plantations flourished in the early nineteenth century.
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When plantations and fenced areas are reopened, though, all too often household use-pressure results in renewed degradation.
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Over time, the lack of fertiliser impacted with increasing severity on the yields of plantations already suffering from the effects of fuel shortages.
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There was damage to plantations caused by the operation of heavy harvesting machinery in wet conditions.
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Brazilian planters were in place on their plantations either the whole year or during a good part of it.
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As a result, the proportion of higher-yielding plant cane and young ratoons declined and the average age of plantations rose.
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Improved cane-supply conditions in turn depend upon the renovation of plantations with new sowings and the restoration of an appropriate agestructure of ratoons.
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First, they were a heritage of the coerced labour systems of the sugar plantations which produced a historical norm of low wages.
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Collocations with plantation
plantation
These are words often used in combination with plantation.
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banana plantation
Based upon interviews with local residents, it is known that the sampled area was cleared of forest and converted to a banana plantation around the turn of the century.
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cocoa plantation
Sometimes seven or eight years pass before a rubber estate or a cocoa plantation begins to produce.
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coffee plantation
Life-table data were colleted from insecticide-free plots within a 3 ha coffee plantation on the upper, medium and lower canopy.
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Translations of plantation
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büyük çiftlik, plantasyon, koru…
plantation [feminine], plantation…
大農場（だいのうじょう）…
aanplanting, plantage…
sad, háj, plantáž…
plantage, -plantage…
perkebunan…
สวน, พื้นที่เพาะปลูก…
vườn ươm, đồn điền…
plantacja…
plantering, plantage…
ladang…
die Schonung, die Plantage…
plantasje [masculine], beplantning, plantasje…
насадження, плантація…
