slaves

3 definitions • 5 examples

a person who is legally owned by someone else and has to work for that person:

Black slaves used to work on the cotton plantations of the southern United States.

I'm tired of being treated like a slave!

to work very hard at something:

We slaved away all week at the report.

humorous I've been slaving over a hot stove (= cooking) all morning.

a person who is legally owned by someone else and has no personal freedom:

Born a slave in 1760, he was sold as a child to a farmer in Delaware.