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单词 slave-making
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slave-makingadj.

Brit. /ˈsleɪvˌmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsleɪvˌmeɪkɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: slave n., making adj.
Etymology: < slave n. + making adj.
1. That enslaves a person or people (in literal and figurative senses of enslave v.).
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a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) xv. 205 These slave-making conjunctions betweene the Spaniard, and his Chaplaine.
1713 J. Toland Dunkirk or Dover 6 I..would fain see the man..that should pretend to stop our mouths, or pens against any insolent, perfidious, slavish, and slave-making Nation.
1882 H. Spencer Polit. Inst. iv. 292 And that in Africa slave-making wars are common needs no proof.
c1956 W. Everson Prodigious Thrust (1996) 175 As a radical anarcho-pacificist I had long considered its socialistic machinations nothing less than blood-letting, slave-making folly.
2010 Caribbean Q. Dec. 24 Attempts by the former slave-making classes and their British colonial backers to corral emancipated Africans into an ontologically degraded labouring class.
2. Entomology. Of an ant or species of ant: that captures larval, pupal, or adult ants from another colony (usually of a different species) for use as workers. Also: of or relating to such an ant or species, or such behaviour. Cf. dulotic adj. at dulosis n. Derivatives.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > of or relating to ants > that enslave others
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1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xvii. 80 Formica sanguinea..is another of the slave-making ants.
1882 Westm. Rev. Apr. 175/1 As a rule, in their slave-making expeditions, they [sc. ants of the species Formica sanguinea] do not kill many of the ants whose nests they ravage.
1967 Psyche 74 299 Since slave-making raids of the genus Polyergus are conspicuous and spectacular, they have been studied by a number of myrmecologists.
2017 R. Menzel Learning & Memory (ed. 2) 1 xxi. 399 Adults emerging from these pupae behave and work for the slave-making species as if it were its own species.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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