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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(chiefly in the plural) A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude..
The conclusive military victory of Philip V left the grandees stranded, still rich and still powerful on their latifundia, but stripped of the ‘aristocratic republicanism’ they had previously enjoyed.
His vision for the future of the African continent in the Age of the Aerotropolis seems to be as a vast latifundium sown with GM wheat.
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Latifundium means (chiefly in the plural) A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude..
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The conclusive military victory of Philip V left the grandees stranded, still rich and still powerful on their latifundia, but stripped of the ‘aristocratic republicanism’ they had previously enjoyed.
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