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BOND SERVANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bond servant mean?
• BOND SERVANT (noun)
The noun BOND SERVANT has 1 sense:
1. someone bound to labor without wages
Familiarity information: BOND SERVANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone bound to labor without wages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bond servant" is a kind of...):
slave (a person who is owned by someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bond servant"):
bondman; bondsman (a male bound to serve without wages)
bondmaid; bondswoman; bondwoman (a female bound to serve without wages)
thrall (someone held in bondage)
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