estancia
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9.1
- noun
- /ɛˈstɑːnsiə/
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estancia
- Craft specialization was particularly strong in this region of Mexico, and trade among neighboring villages and estancias was frequent.
- a large estancia
Examples
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These grand estancias practiced extensive, large-scale ranching with a primary focus on wool production (Martinic Beros 1997).
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In the new vision, many owner-occupied ranches were to replace a few large estancias in order to populate the landscape with smallholder ranchers who would intensify land use and increase economic output.
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I'm the administrator of the estancia.
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She came to bring the children from her estancia.
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Indeed, several ranchers with roots in the estancia era told us that the regional decline of ranching was due to poor management decisions.
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And then I went from there down to the estancia with the gauchos, because people don't realize that Brazil's a huge agricultural company country.
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The reality of the flesh-and-blood "gaucho" of the 1920s and 1930s was life as a peon of the great estancia.
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The land-reform effort in southernmost Chile intended to foster socioeconomic change through a redistribution of land by dismantling the estancia system.
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The smallholder ranches of Tierra del Fuego range from hundreds to thousands of hectares, but even the largest of these properties is multiple orders of magnitude smaller than the immense estancias that previously existed.
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For the past nine months, he'd been living a solitary life on a remote estancia in Patagonia.
Synonyms
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1.9
A large farm where people raise cattle or horses
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5.8
A simple house on land where people raise animals or grow food
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7.7
A large estate, often a farm, in a Spanish-speaking country with a main house
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2.8
A large farm where people raise many cows on wide land
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Etymology
Estancia comes from Spanish for 'a stay' and from the Latin root stare 'to stand'. Like the English word station, it became the name for a settled place — a large ranch or estate where people and animals 'stay'.