serfdom
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- noun
- /ˈsɜrfdəm/
- Living in serfdom meant that the peasants could not leave the land they worked on without permission.
- the road to serfdom
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Watch on YouTubeExcept in England, where we didn't really have feudalism and serfdom, what we had was, well, English Yeoman.
- Except in England, where we didn't really have feudalism and serfdom, what we had was, well, English Yeoman.
- So you still have the same fight between will the economy grow and be free or will creditors have the right to reduce it to debt serfdom.
- So agriculture under industrial capitalism will be different from serfdom and agriculture under feudalism.
- And there is a huge amount of, I think ignorance stereotype in the West that these places are exploitative and we use very big words like serfdom and slavery.
Examples
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The document calls for an uprising to end autocracy, serfdom and conscription.
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Basic democratic liberties include freedom from forms of subordination such as serfdom and forced labor, along with freedom of expression, assembly, and association.
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Whereas serfdom fundamentally is about binding people to the land.
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The sons of serfs had but one choice: serfdom for themselves and their children.
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Serfdom is a feudal practice.
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Many Aari families could not pay the fine due to their impoverishment under serfdom.
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While serfdom still existed in large parts of Europe, the free British were carrying out the great commercial and industrial revolutions that gave birth to the modern world.
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The reaction of many peasants to the end of serfdom in 1861 was either negative or confusing.
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China then abolished feudalism and serfdom and instituted communes in agricultural and pastoral areas.
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The Ethiopian populations who lived in serfdom areas were more affected by leba shay practices than those who inhabited the peripheries.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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To be forced to work for and obey another person like a slave
A condition where peasants are tied to the land and under a lord's control
A system where people must serve and obey a lord
Antonyms
How Free
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Morphology
Etymology
Serfdom comes from serf, from an old word meaning 'slave', and the ending -dom, which means 'state' or 'condition' as in freedom. So, serfdom is the 'state' of being a serf, tied to a lord's land with few rights.