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单词 loan gang
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Definition of loan gang in English:

loan gang

noun
Australian historical
  • A group of convicts assigned to a settler as workers.

    continued good service entitled the prisoner to a transfer to a loan gang
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The loan gang consisted of the best workmen in the Colony, lent on loan to the settlers generally.
    • The first wave of convict labour would be released from the roads to the loan gangs, to be hired out at cheap rates.
    • Persons who obtain men from the loan gang are much more apt to abuse the trust confided in them.
    • Repeated misconduct invariably withdraws the mechanic from the loan gang.
    • In Van Diemen's Land all mechanics are placed either in the engineer department or in the loan-gang.
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