slave
/sleɪv/
A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor is subject to the owner's volition and control; A drudge; one who labors or is obliged to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant; An abject person
- plural
- slaves
Meanings
- 1
A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control
I work like a slave.
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The man is a slave.
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- 2
A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant
- 3
An abject person
- 4
One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something
- 5
A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistressesrare
- 6
A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basisrare
- 7
A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master)rare