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redemptioner|rɪˈdɛm(p)ʃənə(r)|
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1. U.S. An emigrant who received his passage to America on the condition that his services there should be disposed of by the master or owners of the vessel, until the passage-money and other expenses were repaid out of his earnings.
1775Rivington's New York Gazett. 30 Mar. 4/2 To be disposed of, for a term of years, a number of Servants and Redemptioners, just arrived from England. 1796W. Priest Trav. (1802) 145 The law respecting the redemptioners are very severe: they were formed for the English convicts before the revolution. 1805Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 38 With respect to the German redemptioners, you know I can do nothing. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 29 Sept., Passengers to the States may be brought out, not as free emigrants, but as ‘redemptioners’, owing their passage-money to the company, who are to have a lien on their earnings until this debt is discharged.
2. One who clears off a charge by redemption.
1897Board Agric. Leaflet No. 39 No fee is payable by a redemptioner for such information. |