slave-drivenadj.

Brit.

/ˈsleɪvdrɪvn/, U.S.

/ˈsleɪvˌdrɪv(ə)n/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: slave n., driven adj.

Etymology: < slave n. + driven adj. In sense 1 after slave driver n. and slave-driving n. Compare later slave-drive v.

1. Made to work excessively hard; overworked.

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society > occupation and work > working > [adjective] > working > working (too) hard

swinking?c1225

hard-working1682

driven1797

grinded1833

slave-driven1933

1831 W. Scott Earnest Addr. & Urgent Appeal People of Eng. 7 The poor man who breaks stones upon the high ways is generally able to earn more money with much less labour..than the Slave-driven Pitman gets for encountering all the dangers and toils inseparable from his employment.

1895 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 12 Feb. 3/3 Instead of being a farmer he should qualify to be a slave driven navvy or a chimney sweep.

1938 Music Educators Jrnl. Feb. 72/2 Joseph Pulitzer['s] yacht Liberty (called Liberty, Ha Ha by Mr. Pulitzer's slave-driven male secretaries) has been sold for scrap.

2000 Independent (Nexis) 2 Jan. 3 The images were computer-generated, not individually drawn by a slave-driven team of artists.

2. Worked or operated by an enslaved person or people; reliant on or sustained by the exploitation of slave labour.

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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [adjective] > enslaving or using slave labour

enthralling1595

slave-holding1798

slave-owning1828

slave-driving1830

1845 Emancipator & Weekly Chron. (Boston) 3 Dec. 125/4 The slave-driven cultivation of tropical crops, which humanity has almost hunted out of the West Indies and South America.

1871 F. Martin National Hist. Eng. II. 302/1 Huge galleys, with the regular dip of their slave-driven oars, appearing like strange monsters of the sea.

1949 Mod. Rev. Mar. 202 Abraham Lincoln.., in his famous Gettysberg [sic] address urged the American army to fight against the slave-driven South.

1963 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 67 206/2 At Pompeii and other locations the slave-driven mill is found together with the common and universally known ass-driven mill.

2021 T. Holifield Culinary Hist. Chesapeake Bay vi. 102 When the slave-driven plantation economy collapsed, Chesapeake's tobacco and agricultural industries began to decline.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

单词	slave-driven
释义	slave-drivenadj. Brit. /ˈsleɪvdrɪvn/, U.S. /ˈsleɪvˌdrɪv(ə)n/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: slave n., driven adj. Etymology: < slave n. + driven adj. In sense 1 after slave driver n. and slave-driving n. Compare later slave-drive v. 1. Made to work excessively hard; overworked. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > working > [adjective] > working > working (too) hard swinking?c1225 hard-working1682 driven1797 grinded1833 slave-driven1933 1831 W. Scott Earnest Addr. & Urgent Appeal People of Eng. 7 The poor man who breaks stones upon the high ways is generally able to earn more money with much less labour..than the Slave-driven Pitman gets for encountering all the dangers and toils inseparable from his employment. 1895 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 12 Feb. 3/3 Instead of being a farmer he should qualify to be a slave driven navvy or a chimney sweep. 1938 Music Educators Jrnl. Feb. 72/2 Joseph Pulitzer['s] yacht Liberty (called Liberty, Ha Ha by Mr. Pulitzer's slave-driven male secretaries) has been sold for scrap. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 2 Jan. 3 The images were computer-generated, not individually drawn by a slave-driven team of artists. 2. Worked or operated by an enslaved person or people; reliant on or sustained by the exploitation of slave labour. ΘΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [adjective] > enslaving or using slave labour enthralling1595 slave-holding1798 slave-holding1798 slave-owning1828 slave-owning1828 slave-driving1830 1845 Emancipator & Weekly Chron. (Boston) 3 Dec. 125/4 The slave-driven cultivation of tropical crops, which humanity has almost hunted out of the West Indies and South America. 1871 F. Martin National Hist. Eng. II. 302/1 Huge galleys, with the regular dip of their slave-driven oars, appearing like strange monsters of the sea. 1949 Mod. Rev. Mar. 202 Abraham Lincoln.., in his famous Gettysberg [sic] address urged the American army to fight against the slave-driven South. 1963 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 67 206/2 At Pompeii and other locations the slave-driven mill is found together with the common and universally known ass-driven mill. 2021 T. Holifield Culinary Hist. Chesapeake Bay vi. 102 When the slave-driven plantation economy collapsed, Chesapeake's tobacco and agricultural industries began to decline. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). > as lemmas ˈslave-driven ˈslave-driven adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > [adjective] > working > working (too) hard swinking?c1225 hard-working1682 driven1797 grinded1833 slave-driven1933 1933 A. Brunel Filmcraft 147 Scene 168. Medium close up. The slave-driven father looks desperately round again. extracted from slave-drivev. < adj.1831 as lemmas
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