charter colony

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noun American History.

a colony, as Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island, chartered to an individual, trading company, etc., by the British crown.Compare royal colony (def. 2).

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Origin of charter colony

First recorded in 1760–70

Words nearby charter colony

chart, charta, chartaceous, chart. cerat., charter, charter colony, chartered, chartered accountant, chartered bank, chartered club, chartered engineer

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How to use charter colony in a sentence

A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”
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In neighborhoods such as Harlem, 33 percent of students attend charter schools, a majority of them black or Latino.
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Krivov was sentenced to serve four years at a general regime penal colony for his fight for freedom and human rights.
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JetBlue has been flying charter jets to Cuba for three years, and others are sure to follow.
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Klein paints a rosy picture of the charter schools, while admitting that not all outperformed traditional public schools.
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The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
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Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
This was in 1616, when the colony numbered only three hundred and fifty-one persons.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Soon after that, I wrote you in regard to the condition in which we found this infant Church and Colony.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
William Penn, published in England his frame of government for the colony of Pennsylvania.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell

British Dictionary definitions for charter colony

charter colony

noun

US history a colony, such as Virginia or Massachusetts, created by royal charter under the control of an individual, trading company, etc, and exempt from interference by the Crown

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