| 单词 | statute work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstatute work statute work n. now historical = statute labour n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work week-worklOE servicec1300 corvée1340 task-work1582 statute work1683 statute labour1729 statute duty1753 slave labour1820 forced labour1872 1683 R. Dixon Canidia ii. vii. 23 A Justice of Peace engages, For Statute-Work, and Statute-Wages. 1726 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 63 The roads..cannot be sufficiently repair'd by the statute work. 1767 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 573/2 Teams and labourers, coming out for statute work, are generally idle, careless, and under no command. 1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem 43 The old-fashioned Statute-work on the roads..by which every man was bound to give three days' labour, the rich of course sending their substitutes. 1972 W. Albert Turnpike Road Syst. Eng. vi. 166 From the mid-1730s most trusts were empowered to agree with parishes for a lump sum in place of statute work. < as lemmas |
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