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peonages

peonages is the plural of peonage.

Meaning of peonage

Noun

peonage (plural peonages)

  1. The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.
    • But there was work to be done down in the Salinas Valley where César Chávez was organizing the grape pickers and lettuce workers out of their state of un-unionized peonage.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 217

Questions about peonages

What is peonages the plural of?
Peonages is the plural of peonage.

Words near peonages in the dictionary

  1. penzhinite
  2. PEO
  3. peo.
  4. peon
  5. peonage
  6. peonages
  7. peones
  8. peonidin
  9. peonidins
  10. peonies
  11. peoniflorin

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