hacendado
- noun
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hacendado
- The hacendado owned vast stretches of land, employing many workers to help manage the plantation.
Examples
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For the wealthy sons of hacendado who had more leisure time in which to cultivate the art, the charreada provided an opportunity to prove that they possessed the necessary skills to fully and successfully run a hacienda.
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In the first film, Negrete stars as an unmarried and kindly hacendado.
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Like the hacendados, government officials often worked out deals with the bandits in order to bring them under their control.
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As patriarch, the hacendado, or landowner, both ruled and protected his wife, his children, and his employees.
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Yet such portrayals minimized the fact that it was the hacendado who profited most directly from these group efforts.
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Authoritarian, if erratic, leaders such as Santa Anna (a former hacendado) dominated the scene.
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Azuela's Andrade family epitomizes the evils of the hacendado large estate system.
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When hacendados and policemen attempt to capture rustlers, the peasants claim not to have seen them and offer no information on their movements.
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According to Gonzalez, the elites then were split into two classes: the hacendados (landowners) and the professionals.
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The informal riding and roping competitions that drew vaqueros and hacendados from neighboring haciendas developed into more formal competitions in the late eighteenth century.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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2.5
A person who has land, often a large area in the countryside
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3.9
A person who owns a large farm that grows crops like sugar or cotton
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4.1
A person who owns property like a farm or house
A person who owns or manages a large South American ranch
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Etymology
Hacendado comes from the Spanish word hacienda 'estate' or 'large farm', so a hacendado is someone from that estate. In other words, a hacendado is a landowner who owns or runs a large farm or estate.