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repartimiento.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
repartimiento.
Principal English Translation: 

system of apportioning Indian tribute labor for short terms among Spaniards, built on the coatequitl (or cohuatequitl)
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns
Tributes, Taxation, Service