Serflike

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a serf.

    "Millions were reduced to serflike conditions where a small white elite dominated different groups of black and white sharecroppers, indebted tenants and permanent debtors virtually enslaved through peonage."

Adjective
  1. 1
    like someone in servitude wordnet

Synonyms

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unfree

Example

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"Millions were reduced to serflike conditions where a small white elite dominated different groups of black and white sharecroppers, indebted tenants and permanent debtors virtually enslaved through peonage."

Etymology

From serf + -like.

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