单词 | slavery |
释义 | slaverynoun slav·ery ˈslā-v(ə-)rē 1 a : the practice of slaveholding b : the state of a person who is held in forced servitude c : a situation or practice in which people are entrapped (as by debt) and exploited … the unit has freed more than 26,000 workers nationwide from debt slavery. Under the practice, common in the Amazon, poor laborers are lured to remote spots where they rack up debts to plantation owners who charge exorbitant prices for everything from food to transportation. Vivian Sequera Many members of my own family, including my mother and father, fled their work as sharecroppers in the South. They left for good reason: the profession offered no future and was little more than wage slavery. Will Allen 2 : submission to a dominating influence slavery to habit 3 : drudgery, toil slavery noun1 as in enslavement the state of being an enslaved person a child born into slavery Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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2 as in labor very hard or unpleasant work endured the slavery of working in the coal mines every day of his adult life Synonyms & Similar Words
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