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bonded labor
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
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servitude
state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment
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serfdom, serfhood, vassalage
the state of a serf
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villainage, villeinage
the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf
