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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·tract sys·tem.
 1. The sweating system.
 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.
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