Intend to make lace and charge the colony (10)
I believe the answer is:
plantation
'colony' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to property as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'intend to make lace and charge' is the wordplay.
'intend' becomes 'plan' (planning is a kind of intending).
'to make lace' becomes 'tat' (to tat is make lace from thread).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'charge' becomes 'ion' (an ion is a charged particle).
'plan'+'tat'+'ion'='PLANTATION'
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for plantation that I've seen before include "growth area" , "Cotton, slave, estate" , "land for crops" , "settlement" , "Coffee-growing estate" .)