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Plantation, city (1990 pop. 66,692), Broward co., SE Fla., a residential suburb of Fort Lauderdale; inc. 1953. The city has grown rapidly along with the development of S Florida. Major housing developments and the presence of banking companies have marked Plantation's urban boom. The National Hockey League's Florida Panthers play in neighboring Sunrise. plantation 1. an estate, esp in tropical countries, where cash crops such as rubber, oil palm, etc., are grown on a large scale 2. a group of cultivated trees or plants 3. (formerly) a colony or group of settlers How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Everyone worked hard for a living, grew their own crops or worked on sugar plantations. 27) sugar plantations' "long-term rental contracts" when he must know that sugar plantations depended on short-term rentals? nbsp;region of the Philippines is sketched out against the backdrop of the early twentieth-century independence movement in the Philippines and brought forward to his departure for the sugar plantations of Hawai'i in 1909. |
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