debt bondage

noun

Definitions

  1. A condition similar to slavery where people are unable to control their lives or their…

    A condition similar to slavery where people are unable to control their lives or their work due to unpaid debts.

    • Elisha provides a poor widow with oil, so that she might redeem her children, taken in debt-bondage, and live on the proceeds of the remainder.

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