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What is a peon?

What is a peon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A lowly person, a peasant or serf, a labourer who is obliged to do menial work
  2. (India, historical) A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman.
  3. (figuratively) A low-ranking person.
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This arrangement is all against the peon, and all in favor of the employer.
The debt peon had to work for his creditor, and the labour of the criminal peon was sold by the state to a third party.
Thus the Southern peon is not, in fact, and as an individual, as irrevocably bound to the wheel of industry as his Northern brother, since he may always escape to churldom.
Tomas Milian would appear in many of these Zapata westerns, always as a peon, a Mexican farmer turned revolutionary.
She was a smart mechanic, but she was still a mere peon to the vassal that owned her.
The Mexican peon is not necessarily particular as to the quality of this meat.

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