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Definition of slave driver in English: slave drivernoun informal A person who makes others work very hard. she was far too easy-going to be a slave driver Example sentencesExamples - An athlete often needs more of a companion than a slave driver.
- They were constantly telling us that we were slave drivers and refusing to do chores for health and safety reasons.
- Horror stories have been cited of unfortunate junior doctors being forced to work entire weekends on their own with no sleep or food by slave driver health board paymasters.
- Dick has long been the slave driver of the group as far as getting things ready are concerned.
- Next time you call your boss a "slave driver" watch out.
- The girls had joked that I was a slave driver even at sleepovers.
- In the eyes of someone who just sees a fragment of my life, they may see me as a dictator, they may see me as a slave driver.
- He's a bit of a slave driver.
- You're such a slave driver!
- He was a slave driver and really made people work.
Synonyms (hard) taskmaster, (hard) taskmistress, tyrant Definition of slave driver in US English: slave drivernounslāv ˈdrīvər 1A person who oversees and urges on slaves at work. Example sentencesExamples - The man was our slave-driver; he owned us in pretty much every way possible.
- Immediately, however, the would-be slave-drivers of Indians discovered that there was a fatal flaw in their grand plan of exploiting the indigenous population of the New World.
- Near the end of their time in America, Dixon tears the whip from the hand of a slave driver busy beating his property; whom Dixon frees.
- He looked in the Torah and saw that Moses defended his people against the slave driver.
- He tried selling me to every other merchant and slave driver that he passed, but none of them would buy me until you came along.
- They also wore rudimentary robes so that a slave driver wouldn't yell at them for not showing they were there.
- Those who try to stop it - as Dixon does when he challenges the slave driver - are not fools.
- And, when a slave begins to get out of control, the slave driver has to, in some cases, take drastic measures.
- 1.1informal A person who works others very hard.
Example sentencesExamples - He was a slave driver and really made people work.
- You're such a slave driver!
- An athlete often needs more of a companion than a slave driver.
- Dick has long been the slave driver of the group as far as getting things ready are concerned.
- He's a bit of a slave driver.
- The girls had joked that I was a slave driver even at sleepovers.
- Next time you call your boss a "slave driver" watch out.
- Horror stories have been cited of unfortunate junior doctors being forced to work entire weekends on their own with no sleep or food by slave driver health board paymasters.
- They were constantly telling us that we were slave drivers and refusing to do chores for health and safety reasons.
- In the eyes of someone who just sees a fragment of my life, they may see me as a dictator, they may see me as a slave driver.
Synonyms taskmaster, hard taskmaster, taskmistress, hard taskmistress, tyrant
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