Look up: Slavery

1. Slavery
   A form of social stratification in which some individuals are literally owned by others as their property.
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2. slavery
   [n] - work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay 2. [n] - the practice of slaveholding
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3. Slavery
   a form of stratification in which people are owned by others as property
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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...
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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,...
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6. slavery
   noun work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
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7. slavery
   noun the practice of owning slaves
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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.
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9. 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 ...
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10. 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]
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11. 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...
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12. 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...
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13. 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...
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14. Slavery
    Slavery is the legal and economic status of being property.
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15. 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 times, but declined in Europe...
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16. Slavery
    `Slavery` is a system under which people are treated as property and are chapter=8. Slaveries and Property: Freedom and Belonging-->--> 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 Remuner...
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