latifundium
Noun

latifundium (plural latifundia)

  1. A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude.
    • 2011, Will Self, "The frowniest spot on Earth", London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
      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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