Definition of encomienda in English:

encomienda

noun ɛnˌkɒmɪˈɛndə-ˌkämē-

historical

A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labour from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
〈史〉恩康米恩达制（西班牙国王为授予美洲殖民地开拓者向某一地区的印第安居民强索贡品和强征劳工的权利而制定的一项法律制度）
Example sentencesExamples
- The political and economic system they instituted to carry out their aims, called encomienda, granted soldiers and colonists land and mining permits, as well as the slave labor of the natives.
- The entire Soconusco area became a Crown encomienda, with small-scale plots worked by individual families.
- The encomienda system obliged Indians to work for the Spanish in order to pay a large tax.
- First, the Franciscans were highly critical of the military conquest of the Indians and of the encomienda system in general.
- On his Third Voyage, confronted with a rebellion among his own men, he instituted a system, later known as encomiendas, under which each Spaniard was granted a large piece of cultivated land and all the natives who lived on it.

Origin

Spanish, 'commission, charge'.

Definition of encomienda in US English:

encomienda

noun-ˌkämē-

historical

A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
〈史〉恩康米恩达制（西班牙国王为授予美洲殖民地开拓者向某一地区的印第安居民强索贡品和强征劳工的权利而制定的一项法律制度）
Example sentencesExamples
- The political and economic system they instituted to carry out their aims, called encomienda, granted soldiers and colonists land and mining permits, as well as the slave labor of the natives.
- On his Third Voyage, confronted with a rebellion among his own men, he instituted a system, later known as encomiendas, under which each Spaniard was granted a large piece of cultivated land and all the natives who lived on it.
- The encomienda system obliged Indians to work for the Spanish in order to pay a large tax.
- The entire Soconusco area became a Crown encomienda, with small-scale plots worked by individual families.
- First, the Franciscans were highly critical of the military conquest of the Indians and of the encomienda system in general.

Origin

Spanish, ‘commission, charge’.

单词	encomienda
释义	Definition of encomienda in English: encomienda noun ɛnˌkɒmɪˈɛndə-ˌkämē- historical A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labour from the Indian inhabitants of an area. 〈史〉恩康米恩达制（西班牙国王为授予美洲殖民地开拓者向某一地区的印第安居民强索贡品和强征劳工的权利而制定的一项法律制度） Example sentencesExamples The political and economic system they instituted to carry out their aims, called encomienda, granted soldiers and colonists land and mining permits, as well as the slave labor of the natives. The entire Soconusco area became a Crown encomienda, with small-scale plots worked by individual families. The encomienda system obliged Indians to work for the Spanish in order to pay a large tax. First, the Franciscans were highly critical of the military conquest of the Indians and of the encomienda system in general. On his Third Voyage, confronted with a rebellion among his own men, he instituted a system, later known as encomiendas, under which each Spaniard was granted a large piece of cultivated land and all the natives who lived on it. Origin Spanish, 'commission, charge'. Definition of encomienda in US English: encomienda noun-ˌkämē- historical A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area. 〈史〉恩康米恩达制（西班牙国王为授予美洲殖民地开拓者向某一地区的印第安居民强索贡品和强征劳工的权利而制定的一项法律制度） Example sentencesExamples The political and economic system they instituted to carry out their aims, called encomienda, granted soldiers and colonists land and mining permits, as well as the slave labor of the natives. On his Third Voyage, confronted with a rebellion among his own men, he instituted a system, later known as encomiendas, under which each Spaniard was granted a large piece of cultivated land and all the natives who lived on it. The encomienda system obliged Indians to work for the Spanish in order to pay a large tax. The entire Soconusco area became a Crown encomienda, with small-scale plots worked by individual families. First, the Franciscans were highly critical of the military conquest of the Indians and of the encomienda system in general. Origin Spanish, ‘commission, charge’.
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