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What does corvee mean?

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Noun
  1. Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord.
  2. Labor, especially on roads, in lieu of taxes.
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In New Spain these grants were modeled after the tribute and corvee labor that the Mexica rulers had demanded from native communities.
It suggested that other slavery, which did not hide itself under the forms of conscription and corvee.
The following year he was thrown out of school for lending support to peasants demonstrating against high agricultural taxes and corvee labor.
She thought he was referring obliquely to the corvee and the other thing in which her life-work was involved.

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