Corvee

Definition: Corvee

Corvee

Noun

1. Unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "corvee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references)

"Corvee" is a common misspelling or typo for: carve, core, corves, corvine, cove, covered, curve, curved.

Albanian

angari (drudgery, hackwork). (various references)

Arabic 

‏السخرة عمل بدون أجر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ангария (fag). (various references)

Czech

robota. (various references)

French

corvée. (various references)

Hungarian

robot (automaton, drudge, plodding, robot, socage, sweat, swelter), kényszermunka (forced labor, forced labour, hard, hard labor, hard labour, penal servitude). (various references)

Italian

corvée (corvée, forced labour, statute labour), lavoro ingrato e gravoso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

租庸調 (taxes in kind or service). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そようちょう (taxes in kind or service). (various references)

Pig Latin

orveecay

Portuguese

corvéia. (various references)

Romanian

corvadã, clacã (group work, statute labour), robotã (drudgery). (various references)

Russian 

тяжелая работа (donkey work, drudgery, elbow grease, grind, moil, plod, slog, swot, tough job), барщина. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

težak rad (elbow grease, fatigue duty, fatigues, hard labor, hard labour, labor intensive, labour intensive, labouring, slog, toil), kuluk (moil, socage). (various references)

Spanish

trabajo grave. (various references)

Turkish

köylünün derebeyine zorunlu hizmeti, angarya (angary, drudgery, fag, fatigue, fatigue duty, forced labor, slavery, sweat, task). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "corvee": corvees. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cover.

-2 letters: cere, cero, core, cove, ever, over, rove, veer.

-3 letters: cee, cor, ere, eve, orc, ore, rec, ree, rev, roc, roe, vee, voe.

-4 letters: er, oe, or, re.

+1 letter: corvees, covered, coverer, coveter, recover, revoice.

+2 letters: bedcover, cheveron, coderive, coercive, conserve, convener, converge, converse, conveyer, corvette, coverage, coverers, coverlet, coveters, divorcee, orective, overcame, overcome, overcure, overdeck, overnice, reconvey, recovers, recovery, revoiced, revoices, vectored.

+3 letters: bedcovers, cheverons, coderived, coderives, conceiver, confervae, conserved, conserver, conserves, conveners, converged, converges, conversed, converser, converses, converted, converter, conveyers, corvettes, coverable, coverages, coverless, coverlets, coverture, divorcees, overacted, overclean, overclear, overcomer, overcomes, overcured, overcures, overdecks, overprice, overreach, overreact, oversauce, overscale, reconvene, reconvert, reconveys, recovered, recoverer, revocable, uncovered, verrucose, voiceover, vouchered.