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noun

slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.

compulsory service or labor as a punishment for criminals: penal servitude.

Law. a right possessed by one person to use another's property.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin servitūdō, equivalent to servi-, combining form of servus slave + -tūdō, -tude

Synonyms
1. serfdom, thralldom. See slavery.

Antonyms
1. liberty.

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an agreement enforceable by law, originally applied to promises under seal; a bond containing a penalty, with a condition annexed for payment of money

to institute legal proceedings against a person; to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process; to conduct criminal proceedings in court against

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The girl's future is already predetermined: marriage and servitude.

Liberation from indentured servitude is an entirely worthy objective.

Indentured servitude developed as a way around this.

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The girl's future is already predetermined: marriage and servitude.

Liberation from indentured servitude is an entirely worthy objective.

Indentured servitude developed as a way around this.

After a few successful years, the fighters were often released from servitude to their troupes.

Hence, they are more likely to fall into servitude if they owe money to employers or landlords.

The people pay the ultimate price through harsh structural adjustment policies and endless debt servitude.

They remain bonded to employers under terms that critics liken to indentured servitude.

They are born into servitude and can be bought, sold, given away or inherited.

Bosses, of course, can get rich on this kind of indentured servitude.

They have sold our children and our children's children into servitude.

Put another way: roadkill on humanity's path to copyright servitude and restricted knowledge.

Indeed, formal complaints about involuntary servitude are relatively rare.

Federal charges of involuntary servitude are relatively rare.

Getting a tenure-track position is not the equivalent of indentured servitude.

There's no good reason for such visas, which are a kind of indentured servitude in any case.

Reduced to servitude in the land that was once their ancestors.

Parents sell their daughters and sons into indentured servitude because the families are starving and live in abject poverty.

The alternative of seven years of indentured servitude to your adviser probably sounds less appealing to many recent graduates.

Then, there's that whole indentured servitude thing.

The biggest problem would be loan sharks who would demand essentially indentured servitude in exchange for putting up the money.

And it would require authorities to provide real help for those forced into servitude.

If you give up sovereignty for security, you get servitude and provincial status.

Nallanayaki is a bonded laborer working in conditions of servitude.

For better or worse, there is a certain security in indentured servitude.

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servitude (ˈsɜːvɪˌtjuːd)

—n
1.	the state or condition of a slave; bondage
2.	the state or condition of being subjected to or dominated by a person or thing: servitude to drink
3.	law See also easement a burden attaching to an estate for the benefit of an adjoining estate or of some definite person
4.	short for penal servitude

[C15: via Old French from Latin servitūdō, from servus a slave]

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Word Origin & History

servitude

1471, "condition of being enslaved," from M.Fr. servitude, from L.L. servitudo "slavery," from L. servus "a slave" (see serve).

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