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    slave
    [slāv]
    noun
    slave (noun) · slaves (plural noun)
    1. a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person:
      "they kidnapped entire towns and turned the inhabitants into slaves" · "vodun derives from ancient African rites and beliefs brought to the New World by slaves"
      • a person who works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation:
        "by the time I was ten, I had become her slave, doing all the housework"
      • a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something:
        "the poorest people of the world are slaves to the banks" · "she was no slave to fashion"
      • an ant captured in its pupal state by an ant of another species, for which it becomes a worker.
    2. a device, or part of one, directly controlled by another. Compare with master.
      "a slave cassette deck"
    verb
    slave (verb) · slaves (third person present) · slaved (past tense) · slaved (past participle) · slaving (present participle)
    1. work excessively hard:
      "after slaving away for fourteen years all he gets is two thousand"
    2. subject (a device) to control by another:
      "should the need arise, the two channels can be slaved together"
    3. archaic
      make (someone) a slave; enslave.
    Origin
    Middle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th century.
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    noun
    1. a person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person:
      Opposite:
    verb
    1. work excessively hard:
      work day and night
      work like a dog
      exert oneself
      work one's guts out
      work one's socks off
      kill oneself
      knock oneself out
      slog away
      work one's balls/arse/nuts off
      work one's ass/butt off
      Opposite:
     
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