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CORVEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corvee mean?
• CORVEE (noun)
The noun CORVEE has 1 sense:
1. unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
Familiarity information: CORVEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("corvee" is a kind of...):
labor; labour; toil (productive work (especially physical work done for wages))
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