indentured servants

noun

plural of indentured servant
as in bond servants

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  1. servants
  2. serfs
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  • Lawyers are, in his formulation, both loyal servants of their clients and public citizens with special responsibility for the quality of justice.
    — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • The couple luxuriated in a 25-room mansion in Hartford, Connecticut, staffed by six servants.
    — Ron Chernow, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
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  • Nowadays there is less merriment, sunk as Moscow is in a combination of Putin stagnation, the Ukraine war, and the techno-feudalism that is making serfs of all of us in a world owned by billionaires pumping propaganda through the black boxes in the palm of our hands.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of serfs
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“Indentured servants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indentured%20servants. Accessed 9 Jul. 2026.

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