colonies in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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colony [Brit ˈkɒləni, Am ˈkɑləni] N (all contexts)

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colonies Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

The DOM are the French overseas départements. They include French Guiana, Reunion Island, Martinique and Guadeloupe. These colonies are treated today as French economic zones and are responsible, like all départements, for matters specific to their areas.
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When the congregation outgrew this structure some twenty years later, they decided to erect a new church, the most sumptuous in the colonies.
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Although some research was done in the apiary yards, the majority of data had to be collected with higher numbers of colonies at different experimental stations.
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In nature, chinchillas live in social groups that resemble colonies, but are properly called herds.
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Colonies grow via unipolar budding, and hyphae are rarely seen in culture.
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This allows capitalists to increase his profit, but simultaneously draws many capitalists to the colonies, increasing the wages of labour.
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The park includes nesting colonies of sea birds and whales, seals, black bears, moose, and other woodland animals.
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Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.
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Colonies for artists and writers thrive, and the small city teems with art galleries.
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Nesting colonies of wading birds, alligators, mink, otter, and raccoon are found on the refuge.
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Permanent habitation of these minor colonies seems to not have occurred on a large scale.
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