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debt bondages

debt bondages is the plural of debt bondage.

Meaning of debt bondage

Noun

debt bondage (countable and uncountable, plural debt bondages)

  1. A condition similar to slavery where people are unable to control their lives or their work due to unpaid debts.
    • Elisha provides a poor widow with oil, so that she might redeem her children, taken in debt-bondage, and live on the proceeds of the remainder.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 123

Questions about debt bondages

What is debt bondages the plural of?
Debt bondages is the plural of debt bondage.

Words near debt bondages in the dictionary

  1. DeBrulers
  2. debs
  3. debses
  4. debt
  5. debt bondage
  6. debt bondages
  7. debt burden
  8. debt burdens
  9. debt ceiling
  10. debt ceilings
  11. debt collection

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