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encomienda

/ˌɛnkəˈmjɛndə/

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noun

委托监护制，委任制。

(history) 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.

Examples :

"During the early years of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the encomienda system forced Indigenous people to work in mines and fields for the benefit of Spanish settlers. "

在西班牙殖民美洲的早期，委托监护制 (encomienda) 迫使当地土著人在矿场和农田里为西班牙殖民者劳动。

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noun

封建庄园, 采邑.

(history) A permission to exploit labour within the encomienda system; an enterprise established to exploit such a permission.

Examples :

"The Spanish crown granted a powerful landowner an encomienda, allowing him to use indigenous labor for farming and mining in the new colony. "

西班牙王室授予了一位有权势的地主一块封建庄园，允许他在新殖民地使用土著劳动力进行耕种和采矿。

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