| 单词 | slave market |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslave market slave market n. (a) a market at which people are bought and sold as slaves; (b) (in extended use) a place or situation likened to this, esp. (North American slang) an employment exchange.Use in sense (b) may now be considered offensive or problematic on the grounds that it trivializes the historical experience of enslaved people. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > market for buying or selling slaves slave market1835 society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > employment exchange employment office1801 slave market1835 registry office1839 employment agency1851 Labour Exchange1852 employment bureau1865 employment exchange1867 labour bureau1872 pool office1884 employment service1915 buroo1934 labour1934 job agency1952 job centre1970 society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > for specific type of goods horse-fair1369 pot market1580 pig market1647 horn-fair1669 Rag Fair1704 pot fair1738 beast market1779 Michael fair1813 pantechnicon1830 slave market1835 foal fair1880 1653 T. Fuller Infants Advocate i. 4 How many of these persons being taken prisoners, and sold, like beasts in the slave-market, accounted themselves utterly undone for the losse of (the life of their Life) their Liberty? 1835 W. E. Channing Slavery iv. 87 Slave-markets..turn to mockery the language of freedom in the halls of Congress. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. 92 Since Gregory had beheld the angelic children of Deira in the Roman slave-market. 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married Pref. in Doctor's Dilemma 179 We are in the slave-market, where the conception of our relations to the persons sold is..simply commercial. 1960 Voice of Idle Worker (Vancouver) 8 Feb. 2/2 The chances are that he will be a regular customer at the slave market for a few months. 2021 MENA Eng. (Nexis) 6 Nov. Along with using Instagram as a host for online slave markets, the traffickers were also found using the platform's algorithm-based hashtags to boost the reach of their posts. < as lemmas |
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