slave
noun
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.
slavelike
-
a word derived from
slave.
Example Sentences
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All corporations should have the responsibility to ensure their products and the components of those products are not manufactured in slavelike conditions.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2020
He recounts the controversies surrounding the slavelike working conditions at overseas contract factories, but has little to say about the industry’s environmental impact.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2018
I took this to mean that she worked under slavelike conditions.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2017
You whose thoughts are sick and slavelike, how you have hunted me!
From Philoktetes by Gregory McNamee
Odysseus, on the other hand, cannot help but behave treacherously, for in Sophokles's account it is in his base, "slavelike" nature to do so.
From Philoktetes by Gregory McNamee
