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assigned servants

assigned servants is the plural of assigned servant.

Meaning of assigned servant

Noun

assigned servant (plural assigned servants)

  1. (Australia, UK, historical) A convict assigned to work as a servant for a free settler (either a male or female convict, and either a male or female settler).
    • And be it further Enacted, by the authority and with the advice aforesaid, That the time during which every offender shall continue in or at any gaol, port, or place of confinement, penitentiary or factory, or as an assigned servant, shall be taken and reckoned in part discharge of the term of his...1831, British House of Commons, House of Commons Papers, volume 9, page 34

Questions about assigned servants

What is assigned servants the plural of?
Assigned servants is the plural of assigned servant.

Words near assigned servants in the dictionary

  1. assignations
  2. assignats
  3. assigned
  4. assigned risk
  5. assigned servant
  6. assigned servants
  7. assignee
  8. assignees
  9. assigneeship
  10. assigneeships
  11. assigner

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