Definition of "aborigines" []

• Plural form of aborigine. (noun)

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• "Equipped with company licenses, they introduced large-scale commercial hunting to Formosa, using pitfalls and snares. 15 In order to profit from Taiwan's natural resources, the company had thus begun to remove the aborigines from the deerskin economy."
• "By the end of 1642 they felt that the company must protect the northern aborigines from the "brutal" Chinese."
• "Yet even as aboriginal prosperity decreased over the 1640s, the company managed to retain aborigines 'cooperation."