| Pronunciation: | | 'peeunij
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- [n] the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged
- [n] the condition of a peon
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| | See Also: | | captivity, enslavement, pattern, practice |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pe"on*age\, n.
The condition of a peon.
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| | Related Terms: | | abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, employ, employment, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, meanness, menialness, ministration, ministry, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitium, servitorship, servitude, slavery, slavishness, subjection, subjugation, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency, tendance, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, yoke |
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