Crossword clues for corvee
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corvee \Cor`vee"\ (k?r`v" or -v?"), n. [F. corv['e]e, fr. LL. corvada, corrogata, fr. L. 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 unpaid labor (especially on roads) due to a feudal lord 2 labor, especially on roads, in lieu of taxes
n. (alternative form of corvee English)
WordNet
n. unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
Wikipedia
Corvée is a form of unpaid, unfree labor, which is intermittent in nature and for 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 and/or circulating money is in short supply.
The obligation for tenant farmers to perform corvée work for landlords on private landed estates has been widespread throughout history. 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 time or place; corvée has existed in modern and ancient Egypt, ancient Israel under Solomon, ancient Rome, China and Japan, everywhere in continental Europe, the Incan civilization, Haiti under Henri Christophe and under American occupation of Haiti (1915–1934), and Portugal's African colonies until the mid-1960s. Forms of statute labour existed until the early twentieth century in the United States and Canada.
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Usage examples of "corvee".
It suggested that other slavery, which did not hide itself under the forms of conscription and corvee.
The edicts relative to the corvees & free circulation of grain, were first presented to the parliament and registered.
Hawaiian labor corvees built elaborate irrigation systems for taro fields yielding up to 24 tons per acre, the highest crop yields in all of Polynesia.
In Polynesian Hawaii the same bureaucrats (termed konohiki) extracted tribute and oversaw irrigation and organized labor corvees for the chief, whereas state societies have separate tax collectors, water district managers, and draft boards.
What of the corvees by which they command forced labour, of the ban de vendage, which gives them the first vintage, the banvin which enables them to control to their own advantage the sale of wine?
A Latin king could oppress the Greeks, squeeze them, humiliate them, tax them to poverty, dragoon them into his corvées or his armies.