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Trafficking vs Peonage - What's the difference?

trafficking | peonage |

As nouns the difference between trafficking and peonage

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

As a verb trafficking

is .

trafficking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The distribution of illegal drugs
  • the smuggling of illegal arms
  • (biochemistry) The movement of an enzyme (or other protein) through tissue

    • 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 .