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Peonage

noun
1.
The condition of a peon.
2.
The practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged.





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"Peonage" Quotes from Famous Books



... and sharpers, he could; with a confident trust, that, in the long run, terriers and honest men would have the upperhand, and a grateful consciousness that he had been sent just at the right time to come between a patient victim and the master who held her in peonage. ...
— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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