peonage

Noun. The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.