Definition of hacendado in English:
hacendado
(also haciendado)
nounPlural hacendados aθenˈdaðoˌasɛnˈdɑːdəʊasenˈdaðoˌäsenˈdädō
The owner of a hacienda.
大庄园主,大牧场主,大农场主
Example sentencesExamples
- Those in control of their haciendas, called hacendados, treated people on their lands by a system known in the Sierra as the huasipungo (described by western scholars as ‘landed slavery’).
- This prevented the emergence of a privileged hacendado class as in other Latin societies.
- Given her physical attributes and costume, the the doll looks like the daughter of a rich Spaniard hacendado on the island.
- Yucatecan hacendados were quick to exploit this by financing and co-opting anarchosyndicalist unions, local leaders, and electoral candidates who opposed the agrarian reform.
- The cause, it seems, rested with the local hacendados or estate owners who had changed the natural course of the river with dams ‘causing damage in times of floods.’