slave
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.
a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: She was a slave to her own ambition.
a drudge: a housekeeping slave.
a slave ant.
Photography. a subsidiary flash lamp actuated through its photoelectric cell when the principal flash lamp is discharged.
Machinery, Computers. a device or process under control of or repeating the actions of a similar device or process.: Compare master (def. 21).
to work like a slave; drudge.
to engage in the slave trade; procure, transport, or sell slaves.
Machinery, Computers. to connect (a device) to a master as its slave.
Archaic. to enslave.
Origin of slave
1Other words for slave
Other words from slave
- slaveless, adjective
- slavelike, adjective
- pro·slave, adjective
- sem·i·slave, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for slave
/ (sleɪv) /
a person legally owned by another and having no freedom of action or right to property
a person who is forced to work for another against his will
a person under the domination of another person or some habit or influence: a slave to television
a person who works in harsh conditions for low pay
a device that is controlled by or that duplicates the action of another similar device (the master device)
(as modifier): slave cylinder
(intr often foll by away) to work like a slave
(tr) an archaic word for enslave
Origin of slave
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