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slavery

[ sley-vuh-ree, sleyv-ree ]

noun

  1. the condition of being enslaved, held, or owned as human chattel or property; bondage.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. a practice or institution that treats or recognizes some human beings as the legal property of others.
  3. a state of subjection like that of a slave:

    He longed to escape the slavery of drug addiction.

  4. severe toil; drudgery.

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slavery

/ 藞蝉濒别瑟惫蓹谤瑟 /

noun

  1. the state or condition of being a slave; a civil relationship whereby one person has absolute power over another and controls his life, liberty, and fortune
  2. the subjection of a person to another person, esp in being forced into work
  3. the condition of being subject to some influence or habit
  4. work done in harsh conditions for low pay
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辫谤别路蝉濒补惫顎侥谤路测 adjective noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of slavery1

First recorded in 1545鈥55; slav(e) + -ery
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Synonym Study

Slavery, bondage, servitude refer to involuntary subjection to another or others. Slavery emphasizes the idea of complete ownership and control by an owner or master: to be sold into slavery. Bondage indicates a state of subjugation or captivity often involving burdensome and degrading labor: in bondage to a cruel master. Servitude is compulsory service, often such as is required by a legal penalty: penal servitude.
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"These are quite sophisticated networks that we're up against who are also involved in lots of quite serious activities as well as modern day slavery, trafficking, drug supply," says Paul.

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It comes after ministers rejected an amendment to a bill last month that would have prevented GB Energy spending money on solar panels where supply chains had "credible evidence of modern slavery".

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"Sometimes he commented on soccer, sometimes on tango, sometimes on cultural events," Mr Vera, the leader of La Alameda, an Argentine anti-trafficking and slavery organisation, said.

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In addition, government websites began scrubbing African-American history, including in the case of the National Park Service eliminating a photo of the famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman and descriptions of the brutal realities of slavery.

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And so, first of all, we minimized the slavery controversy which convulsed the nation from the Missouri Compromise down to the Civil War.

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