1 a person who is legally owned by another person and is forced to work for them:
She treated her daughter like a slave. * slave owners
2 ~ of / to sth a person who is so strongly influenced by sth that they cannot live without it, or cannot make their own decisions:
We are slaves of the motor car. * Sue's a slave to fashion.
verb [V] [usually +adv./prep.] ~ (away) (at sth) to work very hard:
I've been slaving away all day trying to get this work finished. * I haven't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove (= doing a lot of cooking).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for slave is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is slave a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, slave is tagged as noun.
Does slave appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — slave appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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