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Peonage - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun peonage

is the state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.

peonage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.
  • *2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 217:
  • *:But there was work to be done down in the Salinas Valley where César Chávez was organizing the grape pickers and lettuce workers out of their state of un-unionized peonage .

    • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.