bonded labor

Noun

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

captivity forced labor slave labor bonded labour chattel slavery slave labour forced labour bonded labourers forcible labor human dealing indentured slavery involuntary labor racial slavery biological slavery unfree labour

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Hypernyms

slavery bondage thrall thralldom thraldom

Examples

Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners ... I believe in Gandhi's philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man. Kailash Satyarthi

Close letter words and terms

bonded debt bonded form bonded hide-leather bonded labour bonded labourers bonded leather