Bond Servant (Noun)
Meaning
Someone bound to labor without wages.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The bond_servant was required to work on the plantation from dawn till dusk without receiving any wages.
- In ancient Rome, a bond_servant was considered property and could be bought or sold like a commodity.
- The young woman was forced to become a bond_servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy merchant.
- Under the indenture agreement, the immigrant was obligated to serve as a bond_servant for seven years in exchange for passage to the New World.
- During the colonial era, many Native Americans were forcibly taken into bondage and treated as bond_servants by European colonizers.