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In Spanish-speaking countries, especially those in Latin America, where the hacienda system kept laborers unfree to leave the estate, peon has a range of meanings related to unskilled or semi-skilled work or manual labour, whether referring to a low-status wage earner in a variety of rural and urban industries (especially a day labour er or a servant); a peasant; a bullfighter's assistant, or, historically, someone subject to forms of unfree labour (see debt bondage).
In the United States, in a historical and legal sense, peon generally has only the latter meaning, i.e. someone working in various unfree labour systems, known collectively in the US as "peonage", especially debt bondage. (Compare indenture.)
In computingOriginally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a computer was a person who computes. Since the advent of the electronic computer, it has come to also mean the operation and usage of these machines, the electrical processe slang, a peon is someone with no special (root or wheel) privileges on a computer system -- also known as a luserIn internet slang, a luser is a painfully annoying, stupid, or irritating computer user. The word luser is often synonymous with lamer''. In hackish, the word luser takes on a broader meaning, referring to any normal user ( i. not a guru), especially one or, officially, an "unprivileged user".
In varieties of English used in South AsiaSouth Asia is a subregion of Asia comprising the modern states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. It covers about 4,480,000 km˛, or 10 percent of the continent and is also known as the Indian subcontinent . These s, a peon is usually an office boy, an attendant, or an orderly, a person kept around for odd jobs (and historically, it also means a policeman or foot soldier). It is also strongly derogatory.
(In an unrelated South Asian sense, "peon" may also be an alternative spelling for poon trees or wood, genus Calophyllum, especially those used in boat building.)
SlangSlang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. Slang is a type of sociolect aimed at excluding certain people from the conversation.| Politics | Business | Finance |
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