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Bible Dictionaries
Contract System
Webster's Dictionary
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(1):
The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.
(2):
The sweating system.
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Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Contract System'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/contract-system.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Contract System'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/contract-system.html. 1828.
