About The Word Peonage
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Peonage
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What's The Definition Of Peonage?
[n] the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged
[n] the condition of a peon Synonyms | Synonyms for Peonage: Related Terms | Find terms related to Peonage: 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 See Also | captivity | enslavement | pattern | practice Peonage In Webster's Dictionary \Pe"on*age\, n.
The condition of a peon.
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