slavery
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈsleɪvəri/
- A year later, slavery was a metaphor that expressed their economic and psychic condition.
- condition of slavery
- freedom from slavery
- sexual slavery
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Watch on YouTubeYes, but once they're born, they go straight into slavery for three years, then we kill them.
- Yes, but once they're born, they go straight into slavery for three years, then we kill them.
- And I love that story of the journey from slavery to freedom with food, which was nice.
- So, well, that's just oppression and slavery. It's like, no, it's not.
- But slavery can't hold the slave there.
- Like it's nothing about being in slavery.
- We're born into this slavery and slaves, slavery at its worst and people think they're more free.
Examples
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For two and a quarter centuries, you have been living in a realm of slavery.
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So I have come down to deliver them out of slavery... and bring them to a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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But we will be delivered from slavery.
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Lincoln talked about slavery as a form of theft.
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Today we celebrate the passage from slavery to freedom... ...from death to life.
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You have said slaves develop skills in spite of slavery, not because of it.
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Harriet, left, stands with some of the many people she brought from slavery to freedom.
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AI should relieve the human race of the slavery that they are locked into.
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It cost our souls to escape the horror of slavery.
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Many organizations are dedicated to ending human trafficking and modern-day slavery around the world.
Synonyms
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3.7
A state of being kept somewhere and not allowed to leave
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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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8.6
A state of being controlled and treated like a slave by another person
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9.9
Being completely controlled by someone or something
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9.4
A system where peasants are legally tied to a lord's land and have few rights
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9.9
Being under another person's control
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9.9
A state of being completely controlled by another person with no freedom
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9.9
A polite phrase for slavery in the southern United States before the Civil War
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7.9
Owning other people and making them work
Antonyms
Compounds
- Slang
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8.1
A situation when people must work for very low pay with no control or choice
How Enslaved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Slavery comes from the word slave and the old Latin sclavus, meaning 'Slav'. Being a slave once meant belonging to someone, so slavery also means the condition of being under another person's control and having no freedom.