Look up: Slavery


  1. Slavery
    A form of social stratification in which some individuals are literally owned by others as their property.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20212

  2. slavery
    [n] - work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay 2. [n] - the practice of slaveholding
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=slavery

  3. Slavery
    a form of stratification in which people are owned by others as property
    Found op http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/wps/media/objects/2143/2195136/glossary/glossary

  4. slavery
    The enforced servitude of one person (a slave) to another or one group to another. A slave has no personal rights and is considered the property of another person through birth, purchase, or...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  5. Slavery
    Slav'er·y noun ; plural Slaveries . [ See 2d Slave .] 1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. « Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery , said I,...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/119

  6. slavery
    noun work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=slavery

  7. slavery
    noun the practice of owning slaves
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=slavery

  8. Slavery
    • (n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. • (n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will. • (n.) The holding of slaves.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/slavery/



  1. slavery
    (from the article `social behaviour in animals`) Slave making is a kind of social relation that verges on parasitism. Certain kinds of ants raid colonies of other kinds of ants, carry off their ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/107

  2. slavery
    condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the ... [172 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/107

  3. slavery
    slave, slavery, slaver, slavish, slavishly, slavishness 1. Slave, a person who is forced to work for another person for no payment and is regarded as the property of the person he or she works for. 2. Slave, a person who is completely dominated by someone or something. 3. Slave, someone who meekly...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3704/3

  4. Slavery
    Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation. Historically, slav...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

  5. slavery
    slavery, institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services. Slavery has been found among many groups of low material culture, as in the Malay Peninsula and among some Native Americans; it also has o...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/bus/A0845517.html

  6. Slavery
    The state or condition of a slave. Slavery exists in most of the southern states. In Pennsylvania, by the act of March, 1780, for the gradual abolition of slavery, it has been almost entirely removed in Massachusetts it was held, soon after the Revolution, that slavery had been abolished by their Co...
    Found op http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/s158.htm

  7. Slavery
    Slavery is the legal and economic status of being property.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/JS.HTM

  8. slavery
    Click images to enlargeThe enforced servitude of one person (a slave) to another or one group to another. A slave has no personal rights and is considered the property of another person through birth, purchase, or capture. Slavery goes back to prehistoric times; it flourished in classical tim...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0002631.html

  9. slavery
    1) Bondage 2) Servitude 3) Subjection 4) Subjugation 5) Thraldom 6) Thrall 7) Thralldom
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/slavery/1

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