The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word PLANTATION
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More clues leading to the result PLANTATION
- Estate scheme put in place first off
- Factory transformed into a cultivated area
- Plot French film director takes on in cultivated area
- Pursuing idea, state has time for new settlement
- Map army can carry round to find area with trees, say
- Estate office has scheme to replace its head
- Organize people with time for new estate
- Estate's scheme dismissing head of depot
- Map — volunteers recalled it on crop-growing estate
- Arrange where to get train after opening tree nursery
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The straight part
We know that "tree nursery" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tree nursery = plantation.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PLANTATION mean?
PLANTATION noun- A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
- An area where trees are planted for commercial purposes.
- The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.
- A colony established thus.