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BONDED LABOR
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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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