servitude

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servitude /ˈsɜr və ˌtud/ ?

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(n) state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment

The maids suffer their indentured servitude with government sanction: those who flee their assigned households are breaking the Persian Gulf states' immigration laws.
Others are sold by their parentsor tricked by agentsinto servitude as camel jockeys, fisher boys or beggars.
With Dobby freed from his servitude to wizardkind, one wonders why he isn't running the planet by now.

"America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies," Bush said in the statement. "All who live in tyranny and...
on Jun 26, 2005 By: President Bush Source: Sydney Morning Herald
"We believe it is important to keep the spotlight on ourselves," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in presenting the report. "Human trafficking is not someone else's problem. Involuntary servitude is not something we can ignore...
on Jun 14, 2010 By: Hillary Rodham Clinton Source: The Associated Press
"We are of the view that he's free - once he has concluded his penal servitude - to speak as he wishes, but not to profit," Ruddock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. Sunday.
on May 19, 2007 By: Philip Ruddock Source: International Herald Tribune