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Definitions of corvee in various dictionaries:
noun - unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
noun - an obligation to perform feudal service
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a day's unpaid labour owed by a vassal to his feudal lord. |
unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes |
A day's unpaid labour owed by a vassal to his feudal lord. |
unpaid labor (especially on roads) due to a feudal lord |
labor, especially on roads, in lieu of taxes |
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Corvée (French: [kve] ( listen)) is a form of unpaid, unfree labour, which is intermittent in nature and which lasts limited periods of time: typically only a certain number of days' work each year. * Statute labour is a corvée imposed by a state for the purposes of public works. As such it represents a form of levy (taxation). Unlike other forms of levy, such as a tithe, a corvée does not require the population to have land, crops or cash. It was thus favored in historical economies in which barter was more common than cash transactions or circulating money was in short supply. * The obligation for tenant farmers to perform corvée work for landlords on private landed estates was widespread throughout history before the Industrial Revolution. The term is most typically used in reference to medieval and early modern Europe, where work was often expected by a feudal landowner (of their vassals), or by a monarch of their subjects. However, the application of the term is not limited to that ti |