From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhaciendaha‧ci‧en‧da /ˌhæsiˈendə/ noun [countable] TAa large farm in Spanish-speaking countries
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hacienda• He wore a suit, and had a sombrero, and looked like the owner of a hacienda.• Apparently he has a great estate beyond the Sierra Nevada - big hacienda or some such thing.• If apprehended by hacienda workers they are required to work a set number of days without pay on the hacienda.• The second hacienda, Chacon, combines agriculture with cattle-raising.• She never thought at all about the hacienda until they were almost back there.• I know the hacienda and can be independent.• Sharecropping, practiced on 12 % of the haciendas sampled, is different from the above non-capitalist labor forms.• The hacienda came as a total surprise.Origin hacienda (1700-1800) Spanish Latin facienda, from facere “to make, do” 