How do you use Corvée in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like labor or labour, plus the exact meaning.
Corvée in a sentence
Corvée meaning
Alternative form of corvee.
Using Corvée
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative form of corvee.
- Useful related words include: labor, labour, toil.
- In the example corpus, corvée often appears in combinations such as: the corvée, corvée labor, corvée and.
Context around Corvée
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Corvée
- In this selection, "corvée" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, literally, labor, workers and labourers stand out and add context to how "corvée" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include organized into corvée labor units and and to corvée labour from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "corvée" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with corvée
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The corvée was less regular. (5 words)
Then just the work requirement, China’s corvée labourers. (9 words)
He granted the abbey the right to income from various tithes and to corvée labour from the surrounding countryside. (19 words)
In this system of organization, taxpayers—male heads of household of a certain age range—were organized into corvée labor units (which often doubled as military units) that formed the muscle of the state as part of mit'a service. (40 words)
Karnow, p. 294 Jacobs also shows that Catholics were also de facto exempt from the corvée labor that the government obliged all citizens to perform; US aid was disproportionately distributed to Catholic majority villages. (34 words)
Taxpayers – male heads of household of a certain age range – were organized into corvée labor units (often doubling as military units) that formed the state's muscle as part of mit'a service. (33 words)
Example sentences (12)
From Abydos in Upper Egypt, an inscription belonging to Weni, a judge and military commander, indicates that soldiers were conscripted from the same pool of people as the corvée workers.
Then just the work requirement, China’s corvée labourers.
Also, by an edict of 17 March of that year, the farmers were freed from the corvée and hereditary submission.
Charles' agents were efficient, the towns were prosperous, the peasants were buying up the duties of corvée and establishing self-governing consulats in the villages: Provence flourished.
He granted the abbey the right to income from various tithes and to corvée labour from the surrounding countryside.
In modern taxation systems, governments levy taxes in money; but in-kind and corvée taxation are characteristic of traditional or pre- capitalist states and their functional equivalents.
In this system of organization, taxpayers—male heads of household of a certain age range—were organized into corvée labor units (which often doubled as military units) that formed the muscle of the state as part of mit'a service.
Karnow, p. 294 Jacobs also shows that Catholics were also de facto exempt from the corvée labor that the government obliged all citizens to perform; US aid was disproportionately distributed to Catholic majority villages.
Manuelian (1998) p. 383 Farmers were also subject to a labor tax and were required to work on irrigation or construction projects in a corvée system.
Taxpayers – male heads of household of a certain age range – were organized into corvée labor units (often doubling as military units) that formed the state's muscle as part of mit'a service.
The corvée was less regular.
The word robota means literally " corvée ", "serf labor", and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech and also (more general) "work", "labor" in many Slavic languages (e.
Common combinations with corvée
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: