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Definitions for peon
ˈpi ən, ˈpi ɒn, ˈpyunpe·on

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. drudge, peon, navvy, galley slavenoun

    a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

Wiktionary

  1. peonnoun

    A lowly person, a peasant or serf, a labourer who is obliged to do menial work

ChatGPT

  1. peon

    A peon is generally referred to as a laborer with little control over their work conditions, often subject to abuse and low wages. The term is often used to describe people who do unskilled work, particularly in contexts where their rights are not fully recognized. These workers may do various forms of manual or unskilled labor. The term has been historically used in parts of the world like Latin America and India, often with implications of serfdom or indentured servitude.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Peonnoun

    see Poon

  2. Peonnoun

    a foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger

  3. Peonnoun

    a day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt

  4. Peonnoun

    see 2d Pawn

  5. Etymology: [Sp. peon, or Pg. peo, one who travels on foot, a foot soldier, a pawn in chess. See Pawn in chess.]

Wikidata

  1. Peon

    Peonage is a type of involuntary servitude of laborers having little control over their employment conditions. Peonage existed historically during the colonial period, especially in Latin America and areas of Spanish rule, as well as in the Southern United States after the American Civil War. Whites used the "Black Codes" and other systems to gain the forced labor of African Americans after slavery was abolished.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Peon

    pē′on, n. a day-labourer, esp. in South America, one working off a debt by bondage: in India, a foot-soldier, a messenger, a native policeman.—ns. Pē′onage, Pē′onism, this kind of agricultural servitude. [Sp.,—Low L. pedo—L. pes, pedis, a foot.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. peon

    A person with no special (root or wheel) privileges on a computer system. “I can't create an account on foovax for you; I'm only a peon there.”

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PEON

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Peon is ranked #98553 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Peon surname appeared 184 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Peon.

    84.7% or 156 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    10.3% or 19 total occurrences were White.
    3.2% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.

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Anagrams for peon »

  1. pone

  2. nope

  3. Nope

  4. open

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of peon in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of peon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of peon in a Sentence

  1. Mari Jo Laborde:

    As of today, the tourism industry is estimated at around 6 percent of Gonzalo Del Peon, our goal is to take that to at least 8 percent.

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