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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peon \Pe"on\, n. See {Poon}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Peon \Pe"on\, n. [Sp. peon, or Pg pe?o, one who travels on foot, a foot soldier, a pawn in chess. See {Pawn} in chess.] 1. A foot soldier; a policeman; also an office attendant; a messenger. [India] 2. A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt. 3. (Chess) See 2d {Pawn}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Poon \Poon\, n. [Canarese ponne.] A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as {Calophyllum angustifolium}, {C. inophullum}, and {Sterculia f[oe]tida}; -- called also {peon}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: peon n : a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: {drudge}, {navvy}, {galley slave}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: peon n. A person with no special ({root} or {wheel}) privileges on a computer system. "I can't create an account on _foovax_ for you I'm only a peon there." From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: peon A person with no special ({root} or {wheel}) privileges on a computer system. "I can't create an account on *foovax* for you I'm only a peon there." [{Jargon File}]
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