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empresarios

  • plural
    of empresario.
    empresario
    noun
    a person granted land by a government on condition of recruiting and managing the settlement of immigrant families: such contracts were granted by Spanish, Mexican, and Texan governments in Texas during the early 19th century.

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Then there’s all the corporate crime, and the impunity with which empresarios once hailed as skilled victors in the meritocracy are allowed to cheat and steal.

From Slate Oct. 26, 2019

Other empresarios won generous land grants and followed them.

From Textbooks Jan. 18, 2018

To increase the non-Native population in Texas, provide a buffer zone between its tribes and the rest of Mexico, and provide a bulwark against potential American expansion, Spain began to recruit empresarios.

From Textbooks Dec. 30, 2014

A number of men, headed by Stephen Austin, had come into Texas, bringing with them hundreds of settlers to occupy grants given to these leaders, who were known as empresarios, or contractors.

From For the Liberty of Texas by Louis Meynelle

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