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slave driver
noun
- an overseer of enslaved laborers and enforcer of hierarchy and discipline in the institution of chattel slavery.
- a hard taskmaster:
His boss was a slave driver.
slave-driver
noun
- (esp formerly) a person forcing slaves to work
- an employer who demands excessively hard work from his employees
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Word History and Origins
Origin of slave driver1
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Example Sentences
Colleagues describe Kashkari as sharp, meticulous, and something of a slave driver, despite having a lighthearted sense of humor.
No doubt you would give free play to the strap and the rawhide and other implements of the slave-driver.
Next came a swaggering bully of a slave-driver, evidently bred in the North.
She had in her beautiful kindness redeemed his soul from ignorance, as she had purchased his body from the slave-driver's lash.
This was a sight not new; but in their midst he caught a glimpse of a crested helmet and the black cloak of a slave-driver.
He neglected his carving, waged bloody battles with his fellow workmen, bullied Master Tobias like any slave-driver.
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