servitude
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A condition in which a person is compelled to live and work under another's control, without the ability to leave.
The Convention prohibits slavery, servitude and forced labour.
Business noun
A burden imposed on one property for the benefit of another, equivalent to an easement in civil and Scots law.
A servitude of access ran with the title, obliging the owner to permit the neighbour's passage.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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