Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishslavery
noun
ADJ. domestic Their stated aim was to free women from domestic slavery.
VERB + SLAVERY establish, introduce Chios is said to have introduced slavery into Greece. | abolish | sell sb into | free sb from | be born into
PREP. in ~ They were living in slavery and poverty. | under ~ conditions for children under slavery
PHRASES the abolition of slavery
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white slavery
slaveryI. slavery \ˈslav(ə)rē, -lāv-, -läv-, -lȧv-, -ri\
adjectiveEtymology: Middle English, from
slaver (II)
+ -yarchaic : slobbery
,
driveling
II. slav·ery \ˈslāv(ə)rē, -ri\
noun
(
-es)
Etymology: slave (I)
+ -ery1. : hard work
: drudgery
,
labor
< I never rowed — about the most awful form of slavery which mankind knows — A.P.Herbert >2.
a. : submissiveness to a dominating influence
: subservience
< slavery to habit >
< deliverance of mankind from the long slavery of want, fear and cruelty — Leslie Rees >
b. : control by imposed authority
: subjection
< the … slavery of soldiers on the march — W.R.Inge >
< all government without the consent of the governed is … slavery — Jonathan Swift >3. : the quality or state of being a slave
: the practice or institution of keeping slaves
: bondage
,
servitude
< no one shall be held in slavery or servitude — U.N. Declaration of Human Rights >
< neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime … shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdcition — U.S.Constitution >