| 单词 | slavedriving |
| 释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : slave-drivingadj. also refers to : slave-drivingn. > as lemmasˈslave-driving ˈslave-driving adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [adjective] > enslaving or using slave labour enthralling1595 slave-holding1798 slave-holding1798 slave-owning1828 slave-owning1828 slave-driving1830 society > occupation and work > working > [noun] > overworking > causing to overworking1593 slave-driving1830 sweating1843 society > occupation and work > working > [adjective] > working > working (too) hard > exacting hard work (for low wages) slave-driving1830 sweating1850 1830 Reg. Deb. Congr. U.S. 10 May 939/1 Here they may live and flourish, until some slave-driving politician and planter of South Carolina..again chains them to a miserable dependence on South Carolina cotton and British looms. 1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 562/1 Ye slave driving hosts of factory and poor law commissioners. 1859 J. B. Jones Wild Southern Scenes vi. 46 The reason alleged was his alliance with the ‘slave-driving’ Blounts of the South. 1982 P. Fitzgerald At Freddie's iv. 32 There was no need for her to go back... Indeed it was probably a mistake, and might give Freddie the notion that slave-driving encourages slavery. < see also as lemmas |
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