Meaning & use
Prestation
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A payment, service, or gift owed as an obligation, especially one made as part of a formal or ceremonial exchange.
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Medieval tenants often owed their lord a yearly prestation of grain or labor.
Anthropologists studied the prestations exchanged between the two clans during the ceremony.
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Common in legal history and anthropology, particularly in discussions of feudal obligations and gift-exchange systems.
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