Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bonded_labor

1 sense of bonded labor

Sense 1
bonded labor -- (a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States)
       => bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom -- (the state of being under the control of another person)