assigned servant

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === assigned servant (plural assigned servants) (UK, Australia, historical) A convict assigned to work as a servant for a free settler (either a male or female convict, and either a male or female settler). ==== Usage notes ==== The term convict was considered an insult in early colonial Australia (reference: Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, 1987, paperback →ISBN, page xi.). Assigned servant was one of several euphemisms; see convict for others.