word | servitude |
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definition | A state or condition of slavery or bondage to another. |
eg_sentence | She spent an entire summer working at a resort under conditions that felt like utter servitude. |
explanation | Servitude is slavery or anything resembling it. The entire black population of colonial America lived in permanent servitude. And millions of the whites who populated this country arrived in “indentured servitude,” obliged to pay off the cost of their journey with several years of labor. Servitude comes in many forms, of course: in the bad old days of the British navy, it was said that the difference between going to sea and going to jail was that you were less likely to drown in jail |
IPA | ˈsərvəˌtud |
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