Definition of loan gang in English:

loan gang

noun

Australian historical

单词	loan gang
释义	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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