slavery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The system of owning people as property and forcing them to work.

   The country fought a long war over the abolition of slavery.

2. 2
   noun

   The condition of being a slave.

   They were born into slavery and never knew freedom.

3. 3
   noun

   Very hard work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay.

   Working sixteen hours a day for almost nothing was little better than slavery.

From slave + -ery.

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