peonage

3 definitions found

peonage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Peonage \Pe"on*age\, n.
     The condition of a peon.
     [1913 Webster]

peonage - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  peonage
      n 1: the condition of a peon
      2: the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until
         the debt is discharged

peonage - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "peonage":
     abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service,
     bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom,
     disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, employ,
     employment, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality,
     helotism, helotry, indentureship, meanness, menialness,
     ministration, ministry, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility,
     servitium, servitorship, servitude, slavery, slavishness,
     subjection, subjugation, submissiveness, subservience,
     subserviency, tendance, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage,
     villenage, yoke