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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Contract system

· Con·tract sys·tem · IPA
01 The sweating system.
  1. 1.
    The sweating system.
  2. 2.
    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.