Peon

['piːən] or ['piən]

Definition

(n.) See Poon.

(n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.

(n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.

(n.) See 2d Pawn.

Checker: Sylvia

Definition

n. a day-labourer esp. in South America one working off a debt by bondage: in India a foot-soldier a messenger a native policeman.—ns. Pē′onage Pē′onism this kind of agricultural servitude.

Typed by Claus