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peonage

/pee-uh-nij/US // ˈpi ə nɪdʒ //UK // (ˈpiːənɪdʒ) //

朋克制,朋克,朋克制度,剥皮

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inserfdom
as inthralldom
as invilleinage

Examples

  • David Ruffin, the disgruntled lead singer of The Temptations, complained that the company kept him in “economic peonage.”

  • I, with a train load of other strikers, went to Louisiana and the whole bunch of us were practically forced into peonage.

  • The profit to England from Irish peonage cannot be assessed in terms of trade, or finance, or taxation.

  • Had this bill not been bitterly opposed, the Irish people would have been subject to peonage equal to absolute slavery.

  • Joseph Biggar had the floor and declared the bill was really a move to steal Irish children and sell them into perpetual peonage.

  • Many of these acts betokened an intention on the part of the lawmakers to reduce the freedmen to a state of serfdom or peonage.