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Peon : (noun)
1: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: drudge, navvy,
galley slave]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Peon : \Pe"on\, n.
See Poon.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Peon : \Pe"on\, n. [Sp. peon, or Pg. pe?o, one who travels on
foot, a foot soldier, a pawn in chess. See Pawn in chess.]
1. A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a
messenger. [India]
2. A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the
Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in
a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
3. (Chess) See 2d Pawn.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Peon :
A person with no special ({root or wheel)
privileges on a computer system. "I can't create an account
on foovax for you; I'm only a peon there."
[{Jargon File]
(2001-12-23)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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