peon
/ˈpiːɑn/
noun
- A worker who does boring or physically hard work for low pay; a person with little power or status in a job or organization.
- He worked as a peon in the warehouse, lifting boxes for ten hours a day.
- In the corporate world, new employees often start as peons doing the least desirable tasks.
- The interns felt like peons, stuck making coffee and filing papers all day.
- In some Latin American countries, a poor farm worker who is forced to work for a landowner to pay off debts.
- The novel describes the harsh life of a peon on a large Mexican hacienda.
- Many peons were trapped in a cycle of debt that kept them working the same land for years.
- The landowner treated his peons little better than slaves, giving them only basic food and shelter.
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