slave /slāv/

1. A person kept as property, usu made to work as a servant
2. A person who is submissive under domination
3. A person who is submissively devoted to another
4. A person whose will has lost power of resistance, esp to an influence, drug, etc
5. A person who works extremely hard, as if in bondage, a drudge
6. A mechanism controlled by another mechanism, eg in computing, by the central processor, or by remote control
7. A master-slave manipulator (qv under master)

1. To work like or as a slave
2. To drudge

1. To enslave
2. To treat as a slave
3. Perh make subservient to one's own views (Shakespeare, King Lear IV.1.69)

slāvˈer noun

1. A slave-trader
2. A ship employed in the slave trade

slāvˈery noun

1. The state of being a slave or enslaved
2. The institution of ownership of slaves
3. Drudgery

slāvˈey noun (informal)

A domestic drudge, a maid of all work

slāvˈish adjective

1. Of or belonging to slaves
2. Befitting a slave
3. Servile
4. Abject
5. Servilely following or conforming (eg to fashion)
6. Unoriginal
7. Laborious

slāvˈishly adverb

slāvˈishness noun

slāvocˈracy noun (esp US historical)

1. Slave-owners collectively
2. Their power, interests, etc

slāvˈocrat noun

slave ant noun

An ant captured and kept as a worker in a community of another species

slaveˈ-driver noun

1. A person who superintends slaves at their work
2. A hard taskmaster (figurative)

slaveˈ-fork noun

A long and heavy forked branch fixed on the neck of a slave to prevent escape

slaveˈholder noun

An owner of slaves

slaveˈholding noun

slaveˈ-hunt noun

A hunt after runaway slaves or after people to enslave

slave labour noun

(the work of) people employed as slaves (lit and figurative)

slave ship noun

A ship used for transporting slaves

slave states plural noun

Those states of the American Union which maintained domestic slavery before the Civil War, namely Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee

slave trade or slave traffic noun

The buying and selling of slaves

slaveˈ-trader or slave-traffˈicker noun

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