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Encomienda
Meaning
Noun
●
A system in Spain and,
later
and more
extensively
, in Spanish
colonies
, in which the right to
exploit
the
labour
of certain
groups
of
subject
people (initially, Muslims, during the Reconquista) was
granted
to
conquerors
;
servitude
within this system.
●
A
permission
to
exploit
labour
within the
encomienda
system; an
enterprise
established
to
exploit
such a
permission
.
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