'Peonage' definitions:
Definition of 'peonage'
(from WordNet)
noun
The condition of a peon
noun
The practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged
Definition of 'Peonage'
From: GCIDE
- Peonage \Pe"on*age\, n. The condition of a peon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'peonage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abjectness,
- absolutism,
- attendance,
- baseness,
- bond service,
- bondage,
- captivity,
- control,
- debt slavery,
- deprivation of freedom,
- disenfranchisement,
- disfranchisement,
- domination,
- employ,
- employment,
- enslavement,
- enthrallment,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- helotism,
- helotry,
- indentureship,
- meanness,
- menialness,
- ministration,
- ministry,
- restraint,
- serfdom,
- serfhood,
- servility,
- servitium,
- servitorship,
- servitude,
- slavery,
- slavishness,
- subjection,
- subjugation,
- submissiveness,
- subservience,
- subserviency,
- tendance,
- thrall,
- thralldom,
- tyranny,
- vassalage,
- villenage,
- yoke