slavery

Definitions

1. An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
   uncountable, usually
2. An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers
3. Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
   uncountable, usually
4. Forced labor in general, regardless of legality
5. the movement for the abolition of slavery, especially Negro slavery in the U.S. — abolitionist, n.
6. A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
   uncountable, usually
7. A condition of servitude endured by a slave
8. the condition or quality of being a helot; serfdom or slavery. Also helotage, helotry.
9. A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
   figuratively, uncountable, usually
10. A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs
11. a doctrine that advocates slavery. — servility, n.
12. Covered in slaver; slobbery
13. A state of subjugation to an owner or master:bondage, enslavement, helotry, serfdom, servileness, servility, servitude, thrall, thralldom, villeinage, yoke.
14. to work very hard, often for another person. I've been slaving away for you all day while you sit and watch television. afsloof يَعْمَلُ عن غَيْرِه عملا شاقّا слугувам labutar otročit schuften slave; slide og slæbe δουλεύω σαν σκλάβος trabajar como una bestia, trabajar como un negro rügama خر حمالي كردن raataa trimer לַעֲבוֹד כְּמוֹ עֶבֶד दासतापूर्ण काम करना raditi kao rob, ubijati se od posla agyondolgozza magát (vki helyett) bekerja keras þræla sgobbare 献身的に働く 노예같이 뼈빠지게 일하다 vergauti vergot ...
15. The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude.
16. The practice of owning slaves.
17. The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
18. A condition of hard work and subjection: wage slavery.
19. (Law) 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

Equivalents

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العربيةالعبوديّةرقعبودةعبوديةملكة+ 2 more

Azərbaycan diliəsarətquldarlıq

Българскиро́бство

বাংলাদাসত্ব

བོད་སྐད།བཀོལ་གཅོདབཀོལ་སྤྱོད

Bosanskijaramropstvoјарамропство+ 1 more

Catalàesclavatgeesclavitud

Češtinaotročinaotroctvíotrokářství

Danskslaveri

Ελληνικάδουλειάζυγόςσκλαβιά

Esperantosklaveco

Eestiorjus

فارسیبردگیغلامی

Suomiorjuus

Gaeilgesclábhaíocht

Gàidhligdaorsafòghnadhòglachastràillealachd+ 1 more

עבריתעבדותשעבוד

हिन्दीग़ुलामीदासतादासप्रथाबंदगी+ 1 more

Hrvatskijaramropstvoјарамропство+ 1 more

Հայերենստրկատիրությունստրկություն

Bahasa Indonesiapergundalan

Íslenskaþrælahald

Italianoschiavismoschiavitù

日本語奴隷制度

ქართულიმონათმფლობელობამონობა

Қазақ тіліқұлдық

한국어노례 제도노예 제도노예제

Кыргызчакулчулук

Latinafamulatusfamulitiumservitiumservitudoservitūs+ 2 more

Lietuviųvergovė

Latviešuverdzība

Македонскиропство

മലയാളംഅടിമത്തം

Bahasa Melayuperhambaan

Nederlandsslavernij

Polskiniewolaniewolnictwo

Portuguêsescravaturaescravidão

Românărobiesclavie

Русскийнево́лярабство

Slovenčinaotrokárstvo

Slovenščinasuženjstvo

Shqipskllavëri

Српскиjaramropstvoјарамропство+ 1 more

Svenskaslaveri

Kiswahiliutumwa

తెలుగుదాసితనముదాస్యము

Тоҷикӣғуломдорӣғуломӣ

ไทยความเป็นทาสทาส

Tagalogpagkaalipin

Türkçekölelik

ئۇيغۇرچەقۇللۇق

Українськаневоляра́бство

Examples

“abolition of slavery”

“modern slavery”

“slavery system”

“Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.”

“The film portrays the brutality of slavery.”

“THAT the Constitution does not confer upon Congress power to interfere⟳ with slavery in the States, has been admitted by all parties and confirmed by all judicial decisions ever since the origin of the Federal Government. This doctrine was emphatically recognized by the House of Representatives in the days of Washington, during the first session of the first Congress,* and has never since been seriously called in question⟳. Hence, it became necessary for the abolitionists, in order⟳ to furnish a pretext for their assaults on Southern slavery, to appeal to a law higher than the Constitution. Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live⟳ in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in any of the States composing it;[...]”

“Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use⟳ of one's reason⟳”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.”

“If you wil willingly remaine with me, You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be: Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.”

“Our victories on Voeld are only the beginning of what we can achieve⟳, but we can't defeat⟳ the enemy without your help⟳. If you're tired of living in fear, if you believe⟳ we were meant for something greater than slavery, if you're willing to stand⟳ up and fight⟳: you'll find⟳ a new family in the Resistance.”

“Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own⟳ slavery.”

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