peonage 的定义
- 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.
peonage 近义词
等同于 servitude
peonage 的近义词 14 个
- bondage
- enslavement
- serfdom
- subjugation
- bonds
- chains
- confinement
- obedience
- serfhood
- subjection
- thrall
- thralldom
- vassalage
- yoke
peonage 的反义词 1 个
等同于 slavery
等同于 yoke
等同于 bondage
peonage 的近义词 13 个
- enslavement
- serfdom
- servitude
- subjugation
- yoke
- chains
- servility
- subjection
- thrall
- thralldom
- helotry
- serfage
- villenage
peonage 的反义词 2 个
等同于 serfdom
等同于 servileness
等同于 servility
等同于 thralldom
等同于 villeinage
更多peonage例句
- 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.