1. 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
   "Despite being outlawed, bonded labor persists in some parts of the world";
   - bonded labour [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: bonded labors

Type of: bondage, slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom

Encyclopedia: Bonded labor