slave labour
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4.4
- noun
- /sleɪv ˈleɪbər/
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- You can't call yourself sustainable while using slave labor to produce your goods.
- use of slave labour
- built by slave labour
- African slave labour
You can't call yourself sustainable while using slave labor to produce your goods.
- You can't call yourself sustainable while using slave labor to produce your goods.
- Because their economy was built on free or slave labor.
- And a lot of companies depend on this slave labor.
- And that includes really everything up to child labour and slave labour.
- If you go to Qatar, various of the Gulf states, you'll find that they basically have a slave labour class today.
- The argument can be made that all of this generational wealth that white people have, all of the labor that went into that was slave labor.
- She was then deported to two slave labor camps.
- Together we can try to visit these slave labor camps and you can see it with your own eyes.
- Now that they're meeting again, hanged or set to slave labour, GED says they must be punished.
- Overconsumption, obviously, slave labor and everything that's wrong about the fast fashion industry.
- After these concentration camp was closed, they were moved to slave labor camps.
Examples
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FLO isn't the only organization that has been working against the crisis of child slave labor.
Academic text (2008) -
In China, it seems like all of the businesses are run on slave labor.
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Up here on the fourth floor, this is where all the slave labor takes place.
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The army should not be a slave labor force.
Academic text (1995) -
After learning about child slave labor, I took some things into account.
Blog text (4) -
Together we can try to visit these slave labor camps and you can see it with your own eyes.
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That money's nothing but a way for these people to keep us alive so they can continue using our slave labor.
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Slave labor was used throughout the Sultanate to produce cloves and coconuts for export.
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Many companies are criticized for exploiting slave labour in their supply chains.
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The documentary highlighted the harsh conditions faced by workers involved in slave labour.
Synonyms
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8.9
To be forced to work for and obey another person like a slave
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6.3
Being forced to work for someone as their slave
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4.6
Very hard work done in bad conditions for little or no pay
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8.9
An employer forces people and their families to work to pay a debt, often for generations
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8.1
A situation when people must work for very low pay with no control or choice
Antonyms
How Forced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'slave' (a person owned and forced to work) + 'labour' (work) straightforwardly yields 'work carried out by slaves/forced, unpaid work.' This is a common, cross-linguistically paralleled construction and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Slave labour comes from times when a slave was owned by another person and forced to do hard labour without pay. That's why slave labour today means 'work people are forced to do without pay'.