debt bondage

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debt bondage (countable and uncountable, plural debt bondages)

  1. A condition similar to slavery where people are unable to control their lives or their work due to unpaid debts.
    Synonyms: (Britain) bonded labour, indenture
    • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 123:
      Elisha provides a poor widow with oil, so that she might redeem her children, taken in debt-bondage, and live on the proceeds of the remainder.

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