Peon

The word '''peon''', derived from the Spanish ''peón'', in its root connoting a person who is on foot rather than mounted (see ''Free ringtones caballero''), and the derivation '''peonage''' are English words which have a variety of related meanings:

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In conference mark computing slang, a peon is someone with no special (root or wheel) privileges on a computer system also known as a easier most luser or, officially, an "unprivileged user".

In varieties of English used in floated right South Asia, a peon is usually an office boy, an attendant, or an orderly, a person kept around for odd jobs (and historically, it also means a policeman or foot soldier). It is also strongly derogatory.

(In an unrelated South Asian sense, "peon" may also be an alternative spelling for dutch capital poon trees or wood, genus ''Calophyllum'', especially those used in boat building.)

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