BONDED LABOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bonded labor mean? 

• BONDED LABOR (noun)
  The noun BONDED LABOR has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BONDED LABOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONDED LABOR (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("bonded labor" is a kind of...):

bondage; slavery; thraldom; thrall; thralldom (the state of being under the control of another person)