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   slave

   /sleɪv/

   noun

   • 1. a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person: "they kidnapped entire towns and turned the inhabitants into slaves" Similar bondsmanbondswomanbondservantbondslaveserfvassalthrallhistorical:helotodalisqueblackbirdhieroduleOpposite freemanmaster
   • ▪ a person who works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation: "by the time I was ten, I had become her slave, doing all the housework" Similar drudgeservantgeneral factotumman/maid of all worklackeyminiongalley slaveinformal:goferbitchskivvydogsbodyslaveypoodlefagrare:slaveling
   • ▪ a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something: "the poorest people of the world are slaves to the banks"
   • 2. a device, or part of one, directly controlled by another: "a slave cassette deck"

   verb

   • 1. work excessively hard: "after slaving away for fourteen years all he gets is two thousand"
   • 2. subject (a device) to control by another: "should the need arise, the two channels can be slaved together"
   • 3. make (someone) a slave; enslave. archaic

   Word Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th century.

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