Usually means: System where workers pay off debt.
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  1. peonage: Merriam-Webster
  2. peonage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. peonage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. peonage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. peonage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Peonage, peonage: Wordnik
  7. peonage: Wiktionary
  8. peonage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. peonage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. peonage: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. peonage: Dictionary.com
  12. Peonage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Peonage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. peonage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. peonage: Rhymezone
  16. Peonage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. peonage: FreeDictionary.org
  18. peonage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. peonage: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. peonage: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. peonage: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Peonage: Legal dictionary

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  1. peonage: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (peonage)

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

Similar:
pawnage, payeeship, pawning, dead pledge, pignoration, praedial, villeinage, serf, predial, colonate, more...

Opposite:
freedom, emancipation, liberation

Phrases:
peonage slavery, more...

Adjectives:
virtual, mexican, economic, agricultural, black, institutional, debt, industrial, southern, perpetual, practical

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Similar:
pawnage, payeeship, pawning, dead pledge, pignoration, praedial, villeinage, serf, predial, colonate, more...

Opposite:
freedom, emancipation, liberation

Phrases:
peonage slavery, more...

Adjectives:
virtual, mexican, economic, agricultural, black, institutional, debt, industrial, southern, perpetual, practical



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