1. laborers or farm workers, especially in Latin America, who may be bound in servitude to pay off debts
Usage: historical
2. people who do hard or boring work for very little money
Usage: informal
3. people of low social or economic status
Usage: sometimes offensive

Examples

• The wealthy landowner employed dozens of peons to work his vast estate.
• Many peons were trapped in cycles of debt that kept them bound to their employers.
• The company treated its entry-level workers like peons, paying them barely minimum wage.
• She felt like one of the office peons, doing all the tedious tasks nobody else wanted.
• The revolution promised to liberate the peons from their oppressive working conditions.
• Historical records show that peons often worked under harsh conditions with little hope of advancement.