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slave English

Meaning slave meaning

What does slave mean?
Definitions in simple English

slave Noun

— A slave is a person who is owned by a master and who works for that master, but receives no—or almost no—money.

slave Verb

— To work very hard. I've been slaving in the kitchen all day cooking food for Christmas dinner.

slave

— noun a person who is owned by someone — noun someone who works as hard as a slave — noun someone entirely dominated by some influence or person a slave to fashion a slave to cocaine his mother was his abject slave — verb work very hard, like a slave

Synonyms slave synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as slave?

slave English » English

servant serf bondman female slave bondwoman drudge thrall worker menial bondservant vassal toil male slave captive lackey devotee dependent bondmaid woman slave sweat suffer striver labor knuckle down helot hard worker errand boy endentured dependant buckle down break one’s back bondslave work hard villein victim tributary trailing toiler thigh tenant sweater subordinate stooge slavish slave drive slave device slave away servile serve secondary

Topics slave topics

What do people use slave to talk about?
Social behavior Authority Submit to authority

Slave
Work and occupation Work

Worker
Social behavior Law Justice

Oppress

Conjugation slave conjugation

How do you conjugate slave?

slave · verb

Examples slave examples

How do I use slave in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A man chooses; a slave obeys.
The slave tried to escape.
A slave remains a slave.
I refuse to be treated like a slave by you.
The slave ran for his life.
The slave was anxious to alter his destiny.
Man is a slave to habits.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Tom treated Mary like a slave.
I work as a slave 10 hours a day.
I'm not your slave.
That's your slave, right?
I'm tired of being your slave.
Man is a slave of habit.
The section chief made me work like a slave.
Everyone was very surprised to discover that the slave girl was in reality a princess.
Slave revolts interfere with Middle Passage.
He treats me like his slave.
She is a slave of fashion.
My boss is a slave driver.
President Monroe was a slave-owner.
She's a fashion slave.
This person is your slave, right?
I'm not your slave!

Movie subtitles

This guy is just a slave.
Because I couldn't give Lord Choi's farm rent in time, He took my one and only son to be sold as a slave.
Here, even if Dol Soe is my personal slave, in the meantime he has worked hard in training all of you.
What did your last slave die of?
In order to free Nydia, Glaucus buys the slave and thus saves her.
Princess Makeda sends guards down to the Nile, to hunt for the Greek slave, Theonis.
While we slave over this mud, he goes off to have a few drinks!
White slave trader!
He called me a slave trader!
I am your slave.
Smythe, you're a slave.
I'll be your slave.
I'll slave for you.
I am the angel whom you wanted to slave for and love!
I was young, a harem slave.
Quiet! White slave trader!
I'm your slave.
Look at the way you made yourself an absolute slave to him.
Come on, slave.
Just another desk slave.
You think you're superior, but you're quite an ordinary man. even if you did marry money. and people like me have got to slave for you. for 320 marks a month.
You're making an exhibition of yourself. a girl like you, bidding for a slave before these people.
Your very humble slave, Miss Bishop.
And according to what I've heard, he became a slave by being a doctor.
A slave?
Lord Choi's soldiers? Because I couldn't give Lord Choi's farm rent in time, He took my one and only son to be sold as a slave.
Just another desk slave. Money.
You must be a master, not a slave.
Slave in the Magic Mirror, come from the farthest space.
You can't make a slave of him!
Things. you can't foresee anything Besides, I'm not your slave.
Caroline Meade, how can you let your husband conduct this slave auction!
I slave day and night just so we can have enough food. and you give it away to scarecrows.

News and current affairs

Even during the 20 th century, neither the indigenous populations nor the African-Brazilian slave descendants had much chance in the economic and social order.
In World War II, German corporations were all too willing to profit from the slave labor of those in concentration camps, and Swiss banks were happy to pocket the gold of Jewish victims of Nazi terror.
He graduated from a military academy in Manchuria, where Kishi had once ruled over an industrial empire that was built on Chinese slave labor.
After slavery ended, the once beautiful island could barely sustain the former slave populations because the soils were exhausted by overuse and erosion.
America refused to recognize Haiti as an independent country until the 1860s, nearly six decades after Haiti's slave rebellion successfully ended French colonial rule.
Many have turned to weapons, slave, or gold trafficking; some are demanding independence.
Nonetheless, we can now collectively look back at our slave-owning, wife-beating, child-brutalizing, heretic-burning, colonizing forebears and wonder how even the most profoundly moral among them failed to see that they should not behave that way.
Haiti was the second country, after the US, to win its independence from Europe, following a slave rebellion in 1804.
Abolition of the slave trade, or the triumph of socialism, or the spread of human rights and democracy can all be deemed a national interest.
To expedite matters, I have appointed a special representative for the question of forced and slave labor under the Nazi regime.
Satyarthi's Global March Against Child Labor has rescued thousands of boys and girls, as young as eight, working as slave laborers in India's back streets and sweatshops.
When a government-run brick plant in Hongdong County of Shanxi Province was revealed to be using slave labor, a famous episode from a Beijing opera flashed through my mind.
As I click on the Web site of the county government, there is no mention of slave labor or child workers at the brick factory.
As a result of the slave-labor brick plants, as well as reports of an eight-year-old child worker being buried alive and migrant workers killed, Hongdong's name has become infamous.
What makes matters worse is that the state authorities, particularly the police, patrol these slave operations to keep them running.
And the grimmest statistic of all is that many child slaves who are rescued are resold by officials to another slave-labor plant.
Seven years ago, a lawmaker from Hunan province went to Shanxi province to rescue slave workers from brick plants.
Its people were first treated by the slave trade as mere commodities, necessary for economic growth elsewhere.
Colonialism and the slave trade constituted a historical rupture for Africa.
The human slave trade also provided employment, but that was no argument for perpetuating it.
In India, vigils making common cause with the Chibok girls were led by Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which every day rescues children from trafficking and slave labor.
Moses wandered with his people in the desert for 40 years, until they had rid themselves of the poisonous slave mentality.

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