peonage

Plural: peonages

Noun

• The condition or system of being an unskilled laborer or debtor.
• the condition of a peon
• the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged
• The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.

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• While a valid Scrabble word, PEONAGE rarely appears due to its length and uncommon letters.