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corvee
noun as in labor camp
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Example Sentences
These men she saw now working in the dread corvee had been forced from their homes by a counterfeit Khedivial order.
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.
The seignior pays six sous for food, each corve, on men, and twelve sous on each corvee of four oxen.
I should have been with Yankling Sahib now but for this cursed beegar (the corvee).
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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to corvee, such as: chain gang, forced-labor camp, gulag, hard labor, rock pile, and servitude.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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