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n. a person who employs, and directs the labour of, temporary or migratory labourers, especially for seasonal agricultural work
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Gangmaster is a 1994 Telugu film directed by B. Gopal. It has music composed by A. R. Rahman. It was dubbed into Tamil with the title Manitha Manitha. The film was a remake of Hindi film Sir.
Usage examples of "gangmaster".
You were bonded to your gangmaster, Siri Teku or whoever, and he took the cost of food and clothes out of your wages and kept the rest to pay off the advance your family had gotten for bonding you, and "when you were paid off, you could go home or you could stay at "work and send the money back to your family.
Kheti'd kept her head then, helping the little kids to scramble into hiding places, making Buddhe and Faiz throw rocks to distract Siri Teku until they all got out of reach, keeping them safe until the gangmaster threw up and fell down on the ground to sleep it off.
And Siri Teku and the other gangmasters, when a girl gets too tall to drag, they practic'ly give her to Didi Badini .