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peonage

noun
/ˈpiːənɪdʒ/UK

Etymology

From peon + -age.

  1. derived from pedo — “pedestrian”
  2. borrowed from peón
  3. borrowed from pion
  4. suffixed as peonage — “peon + age”

Definitions

  1. The state of being a peon

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

    • 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.

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