What's the difference between peon and peonage?

Peon


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If any of the poor little peons that they don’t care about don’t have that paycheck coming, they can’t buy your stuff.” To those who say robots are taking more jobs than Mexicans, she points to the number of factories across the border.
  • (2) But more than anything, Maddox – who did not want her picture taken – voted for the incoming president because she sees him as on the side of people like her, those she calls the “peons” at the mercy of big business and indifferent politicians.

Peonage


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition of a peon.

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