| 单词 | modern slavery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmodern slavery modern slavery n. present-day exploitation of human beings for profit (likened to historical slavery), characterized by abusive and usually illegal practices such as people trafficking, enforced labour and sexual exploitation, debt bondage, and coercion of workers.Cf. slavery n. 1a(b). ΘΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > enslavement thirling1535 mancipation1577 enthraldom1582 esclavishing1583 enthralment1595 enthralling1603 beslaving1641 enslavement1692 society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > system or institution slavery1728 servilism1857 chattelism1865 neoslavery1958 1990 Evening Herald (Dublin) 20 Sept. 14/5 The United Nations is concerned enough to have organised a summit meeting on child problems. Most modern slavery is economic. Children are sold as cheap labour or sexual commodities. 2003 New Yorker 21 Apr. 124/1 It proposed a federal felony charge for involuntary servitude, updating the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of slavery to take into account the forms of debt peonage and psychological coercion that characterize modern slavery. 2019 Times 25 Oct. 31/3 Research conducted by the Home Office has suggested that there are as many as 13,000 victims of modern slavery in Britain... Women are drafted into sex work while men are more commonly forced to do unpaid labour. < as lemmas |
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