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US
/ˈsɫeɪv/
]
[ UK /slˈeɪv/ ]
[ UK /slˈeɪv/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is owned by someone
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someone entirely dominated by some influence or person
a slave to fashion
a slave to cocaine
his mother was his abject slave - someone who works as hard as a slave
VERB
- work very hard, like a slave
How To Use slave In A Sentence
- On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Why is that man a slave to his genes?
- And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
- Such a man or woman is slave to his or her social position and wealth.
- Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed.
- Jackson and Lee continued to preside over the wanton slaughter of men, women and children to defend the rights of freedom for white Virginians while supporting the slavery of black Virginians, among others.
- His theory was that animals were the ‘slaves of man’ and he spoke of the ‘tyranny of humans over non-human animals.’
- Why should they allow their slaveys to own and use land?
- As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
- The church dates back to the 1830's when recently emancipated slaves were given lands at Kingstown.