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What does encomienda mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) The encomienda system was a labor system in the 15th to 17th century Spanish colonies, by which rights to the labor of its Native American inhabitants were granted to encomenderos, initially the early military conquistadors.
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The encomienda of Maragondon, with four hundred and fifty men.
He served as chaplain in the conquest of Cuba, and received a second encomienda.
He himself renounced possession of his own encomienda, where he had used the forced labor of Indians to prosper as a planter.
Your Majesty has commanded that no offices or places of profit shall be given to those who hold Indians in encomienda.
The said encomienda is instructed and visited with difficulty.
The new encomienda began to function with fifty farmers from Castilla, chosen by Las Casas himself.

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