redemptioners

redemptioners

美 　英

• n.〈美〉(殖民地时代)出卖劳力抵作赴美船资的人
• 网络契约劳工

词形变化

复数：redemptioners  

英汉解释

n.	1. 〈美〉(殖民地时代)出卖劳力抵作赴美船资的人

英英解释

n.	1. an emigrant from Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries who worked as a servant on arriving in North America to pay for the cost of the voyage

例句

As the decades passed, the percentage of European immigrants arriving as indentured servants or redemptioners declined.

几十年过去了，契约仆役或自主契约仆役身份的欧洲移民的比例降低了。

Sometimes the redemptioners prepaid a portion of the costs of passage.

有时这些仆役移民会预付一部分运费。