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  1. Latin `broad' + `farm' in ancient Rome, a
  2. large agricultural estate designed to make
  3. maximum use of cheap labour, whether free
  4. workmen or slaves. In present-day Italy,
  5. Spain, and South America, the term latifondo
  6. refers to a large agricultural estate worked
  7. by low-paid casual or semiservile labour in
  8. the interests of absentee landlords.
  9.