Peon

The words peon and peonage are derived from the Spanish Peon.

Meanings in Spanish

In a now obsolete use of the word, the word referred to someone who travels on foot rather than on a horse ( caballero ). It now refers to a pawn in chess.

In Spanish-speaking countries, especially in Latin America where, under the Hacienda - system, the farm workers were prevented from leaving the haciendas, peon has a range of meanings associated with unskilled or semi-skilled manual workers. There may be a wage laborer or a servant or designate, historically a non-free workers.

Meanings in German

The derived foreign words peon and peonage mostly relate to the slavery comes very close to the form of unfree labor such as those in Mexico and the southern United States (after Reconstruction) was widespread.

Meanings in English

Peon The derived English word has a variety of meanings and additional.

In the U.S., peon has a historic and legal sense, the meaning of someone who works in a system of unfree labor ( peonage ). It implies often bondage or the status of an Indentured Servant. Generally, the word in the English speaking world colloquially an employee or soldier with little authority, the unskilled work or has run a drudgery. The word has a pejorative connotation often then.

In the English of South Asia is a peon often an office boy, a guard or fellow of an officer, a person to do the menial work has ( and historically a policeman or foot soldier ). It is very pejorative. In a so non-contiguous meaning can peon also an alternative spelling for the poon tree (genus Calophyllum ) or its wood be, particularly in shipbuilding.

In computing, a peon is a user with little rights on a system. The opposite of this is the " superuser ".

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