BONDED LABOR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("bonded labor" is a kind of...):

bondage; slavery; thraldom; thrall; thralldom (the state of being under the control of another person)

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