plantation
n.a very large farm or estate where crops like coffee, sugar, or cotton are grown. These places usually focus on one type of plant and often have a history of using many workers.
n.a large-scale estate or agricultural operation dedicated to the cultivation of cash crops. Historically associated with colonial economies and forced labor systems, it typically focuses on a single monoculture.
“The family visited an old coffee plantation in Brazil.”
“During the colonial era, the sugar plantation was the primary economic unit in many Caribbean islands.”
“Historians examine the plantation as a complex socio-economic system that relied on the exploitation of labor to produce commodities for global markets.”
Often used with 'of' to specify the crop, such as a 'plantation of rubber trees'.
“Japanese laborers had been migrating to Hawaii since the 1890s, mainly to work on sugar plantations.”
“Kuda kepang was introduced to the southern Malaysian state of Johor by Javanese migrants who had settled in the peninsula as plantation workers and farmers in the 1910s through the 1930s.”