Meaning of PEONAGE

Pronunciation:			'peeunij
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged [n]  the condition of a peon
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	See Also:		captivity, enslavement, pattern, practice
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\Pe"on*age\, n. The condition of a peon.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		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