truck system

American  

noun

1. the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.

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truck system British  

noun

1. a system during the early years of the Industrial Revolution of forcing workers to accept payment of wages in kind, usually to the employer's advantage

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Etymology

Origin of truck system

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

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truck system

In 2021, it rolled out Paccar Connect, a next-generation connected truck system, in Europe.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

For this the country has built its grand, intricate railroad and truck system, the many-geared machinery of warehouses, outlets, middlemen, packing plants.

From Time Magazine Archive

The truck system is here the rule, not the exception, and is carried on in the most direct and undisguised manner. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

He did not inherit a debt, and all his life he had kept free from the truck system under which his neighbors toiled hopelessly, year in and year out.

From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Wallace, Dillon

Till one has seen the truck system at work, its evil effects in enslaving and demoralizing the poor are impossible to realize.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir