pasganger, noun2
- Forms:
- Also pasgänger.
- Origin:
- South African DutchShow more South African Dutch, pas pass, ticket + ganger one who goes.
historical
Under Dutch East India Company rule: one who was excused from military service and permitted to work at a trade for himself, in exchange for a monthly payment to be shared among those soldiers performing his duties.
1868 W.R. Thomson Poems, Essays & Sketches 207Such soldiers as could, by some trade which they had learnt, or by other occupations, earn more than they could [by] standing on guard, went out as free-ticket men (pasgangers), and received a monthly pay of 9 florins 12 stivers, which money, called service-money, was equally divided among all the soldiers actually serving in garrison.
1968 E.A. Walker Hist. of Sn Afr. 72Others [of these men] were pasgangers who paid for the privilege of working on their own account.
one who was excused from military service and permitted to work at a trade for himself, in exchange for a monthly payment to be shared among those soldiers performing his duties.
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