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)

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