peon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: peon	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for peon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peon n a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave]
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[d2]tida}; -- called also {peon}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [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}] (2001-12-23)