white slavern.
/ˌwʌɪt ˈsleɪvə/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪt ˈsleɪvər/ A person who trades in or owns white slaves. Cf. white slave n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > employer > [noun] > employer paying low wages
white slaver1843
sweater1846
grinder1851
scurf1851
1843 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 6 Nov. Let us see how the account stands with the wholesale ‘white slaver’ whom they [sc. Italian organ-players] serve.
1911 C. B. Chrysler White Slavery xi. 89 Opium smokers, ‘hop fiends’ or ‘hop heads’ as they are called, are the fiercest of all the White Slavers.
1922 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 278/2 The villain of the piece..is a white slaver.
1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 248 The girl's value in the marriage market is..so much lowered that he will likely be obliged to sell her off to a white-slaver for whatever he can get.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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