Look up: Corvee

1. corvee
   [n] - unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
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2. Corvee
   Cor`vee' noun [ French corvée , from Late Latin corvada , corrogata , from Latin corrogare to entreat together; cor- + rogare to ask.] (Feudal Law) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
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3. corvee
   noun unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
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4. Corvee
   • (n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
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5. corvée
   unpaid labour that a European vassal owed a lord or that a citizen in later times owed the state, either in addition to or in lieu of taxes. See ...
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6. corvée
   corvée (kôrvā') , under the feudal system, compulsory, unpaid labor demanded by a lord or king and the system of such labor in general. There were national and local variations, but in broad terms the corvée proper included work on the lord's portion of the manorial pro...
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7. Corvee
   Corvee is a form of forced labour. The term is especially applied to the unpaid labour owed by tenants in France to their lord under the feudal system. The system died out with serfdom in Europe, except in France where it was continued in the form of a labour or money payment for the upkeep of roads and was not finally abolished there until 1792.
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