PEONAGE
- the condition or service of a peon
- the practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery, as to work off a debt or to serve a penal sentence
- the use of laborers bound in servitude because of debt
- the condition of being a peon [n PEONAGES]
- system of convict labor by which convicts are leased to contractors
- the condition of being a peon, also PEONISM [n -S]