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   slave

   /sleɪv/

   noun

   • 1. a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person: "they kidnapped entire towns and turned the inhabitants into slaves" Similar bondsmanbondswomanbondservantbondslaveserfvassalthrallhistorical:helotodalisqueblackbirdhieroduleOpposite freemanmaster
   • ▪ a person who works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation: "by the time I was ten, I had become her slave, doing all the housework" Similar drudgeservantgeneral factotumman/maid of all worklackeyminiongalley slaveinformal:goferbitchskivvydogsbodyslaveypoodlefagrare:slaveling
   • ▪ a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something: "the poorest people of the world are slaves to the banks"
   • 2. a device, or part of one, directly controlled by another: "a slave cassette deck"

   verb

   • 1. work excessively hard: "after slaving away for fourteen years all he gets is two thousand"
   • 2. subject (a device) to control by another: "should the need arise, the two channels can be slaved together"
   • 3. make (someone) a slave; enslave. archaic

   Word Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th century.

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   What is the definition of slavery?

   • slavery, condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. There is no consensus on what a slave was or on how the institution of slavery should be defined.

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   What is the relationship between productive slavery and a slave-owning society?

   • A major theoretical issue is the relationship between productive slavery and the status of a society as a slave or a slave-owning society. In a slave society, slaves composed a significant portion (at least 20–30 percent) of the total population, and much of that society’s energies were mobilized toward getting and keeping slaves.

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   What is a slave noun?

   • Definition of slave noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary a person who is owned by another person and is forced to work for and obey them A former slave, he graduated from Claflin University in South Carolina. She treated her daughter like a slave. Prisoners of war were regularly sold as slaves. Want to learn more?

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   What does slave mean in a sentence?

   • In 1813, some disputes arose between the court of Rio and England on account of the slave trade. Slave definition: a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.. See examples of SLAVE used in a sentence.

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   SLAVE definition: 1. a person who is legally owned by someone else and has to work for that person: 2. to work very…. Learn more.

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   The meaning of SLAVE is someone captured, sold, or born into chattel slavery. How to use slave in a sentence.

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   noun. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: She was a slave to her own ambition. a drudge: a housekeeping slave. a slave ant.

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   4 days ago · Slavery is the condition in which one human being is owned by another. Under slavery, an enslaved person is considered by law as property, or chattel, and is deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. Learn more about the history, legality, and sociology of slavery in this article.

   • Slavery is a condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of mo...
   • Whether statues of slaveholders or other controversial people should be taken down is widely debated. Some argue the statues misrepresent history a...
   • Whether the federal government should pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved people is hotly debated. Some say the wealth and health dispar...

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   Someone who is forcibly held in servitude is called a slave. The practice of owning slaves is immoral and detestable. Throughout history there have been slaves, and in some parts of the world some people still force others into slavery.

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   noun. /sleɪv/ a person who is owned by another person and is forced to work for and obey them. A former slave, he graduated from Claflin University in South Carolina. She treated her daughter like a slave. the slave trader Edward Colston. freed slaves. Prisoners of war were regularly sold as slaves.

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   n. 1. One who is owned as the property of someone else, especially in involuntary servitude. 2. One who is subservient to or controlled by another: his boss's slave. 3. One who is subject to or controlled by a specified influence: a slave to alcohol; a slave to an irrational fear. 4. One who works extremely hard. 5.