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单词 white slaving
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white slavingn.

Brit. /ˌwʌɪt ˈsleɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌ(h)waɪt ˈsleɪvɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., slaving n.2
Etymology: < white adj. + slaving n.2, after white slave n. Compare earlier white slavery n. and later white-slave v.
The action or practice of trading people, esp. women or girls, as white slaves. Cf. white slave n.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > selling woman into
white slavery1804
white slaving1909
1909 E. N. Law Shame Great Nation x. 144 These results are nothing more nor less than..to make it impossible for pandering and white slaving to exist here.
1916 F. N. Westcott Dabney Todd xx. 232 Morris Rosenblatt was in some way connected with a tentacle of the white-slaving business in Redburn.
1972 Life 23 June 16/4 The film's involvement with a vice as antique as white slaving, led me to think it might have been intended as a period piece that got updated for budgetary reasons.
2002 D. Lambkin Night Jasmine Man ii. 9 We think he's dabbled in everything from drug dealing to white slaving to prostitution. Crime and vice are hobbies for him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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