slavery
IPA: sɫˈeɪvɝi
noun
- An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
- Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
- A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
- (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
adjective
- Covered in slaver; slobbery.
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Examples of "slavery" in Sentences
- Slavery is illegal.
- Slavery is invidious and wrong.
- The slavery was permitted by the Bible.
- The main trade of the pirates was slavery.
- Chattel slavery was permitted by the Bible.
- It was a toilsome slavery under the Spaniards.
- But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
- The Church of England was implicated in slavery.
- Abolitionism is the movement to end human slavery.
- Freedom for them, servitude and slavery for the rest.