Term: bonded labor: a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States
Candidate hypernym: bondage: the state of being under the control of another person → 1
Candidate hypernym: acariasis: infestation with itch mites → 0
Candidate hypernym: anode: the negatively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current → 0
Candidate hypernym: epidemic: a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time → 0
Candidate hypernym: caller: the person initiating a telephone call → 0
Candidate hypernym: signal: an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes → 0
Candidate hypernym: autoeroticism: using you own body as a sexual object → 0
Candidate hypernym: altar: a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made → 0
Candidate hypernym: blip: a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface → 0
Candidate hypernym: pepper spray: a nonlethal aerosol spray made with the pepper derivative oleoresin capiscum; used to cause temporary blindness and incapacitate an attacker; also used as a bear deterrent → 0
Candidate hypernym: isoflurane: a widely used inhalation anesthetic → 0