Definitions for corvees

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corvees cor·vée

Spelling: [kawr-vey]

IPA: /kɔrˈveɪ/

Corvees is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in corvees (ceeorsv).

Definitions for corvees

noun

1. unpaid labor for one day, as on the repair of roads, exacted by a feudal lord.
2. an obligation imposed on inhabitants of a district to perform services, as repair of roads, bridges, etc., for little or no remuneration.

Origin of corvees

1300-50; Middle English Middle French Late Latin corrogāta contribution, collection, noun use of feminine of Latin corrogātus (past participle of corrogāre to collect by asking), equivalent t

Examples for corvees

It suggested that other slavery, which did not hide itself under the forms of conscription and corvee.

She thought he was referring obliquely to the corvee and the other thing in which her life-work was involved.

I should have been with Yankling Sahib now but for this cursed beegar (the corvee).