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Meaning of peonism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

peonage

uncountable

Examples

“March⟳ 7 1850, Daniel Webster, speech delivered in the Senate I understand⟳ that peonism, a sort⟳ of penal servitude, exists there, or rather a sort⟳ of voluntary sale of a man and his offspring for debt”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

peonization Peony people people carrier people journalism people mover

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