peon /'pi: an; 'pisn/ n 1 (in Latin America) unskilled farm worker, esp one who is not wholly free. (拉丁美洲的) 不熟練的農(nóng)場工人 (尤指不太自由者); 被迫以勞役償債的工人。 2 (in India and Pakistan) office messenger; orderly. (印度及巴基斯坦的) (機關(guān)的) 信差; 傳令兵。 ~ age /-ids; -ids/ n [U] system of employing ~s (1); (legal) use of indebtedness to compel sb to work. 勞役償債制度; (法律) 勞役償債。