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单词 unfree
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Definition of unfree in English:

unfree

adjectiveʌnˈfriːˌənˈfrē
  • Deprived or devoid of liberty.

    as long as a man was unfree he had no access to justice
    slavery is just one form of unfree labour
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A distinguishing feature of the postwar period was in fact its exceptional reliance on unfree labour.
    • As we see more of the same action and reaction, the overall story, like all stories of the emancipation of unfree labour, is not for romantics.
    • Moreover, the productivity of investment is 70 percent greater in economically free nations than in unfree nations.
    • Instead of the courts deciding who should be free and who unfree, the home secretary has sought to grab and keep that power for himself.
    • We'll up the security until we live in a militarised police state, and we'll be safe but unfree.
    • I believe that peasants should be bound to the land as unfree thralls who do the bidding of the freemen without question.
    • The act instructs American ambassadors and embassy staffs to draw up democracy transition plans for unfree regimes, with input from nonviolent opposition movements in the various countries.
    • Now, one of the few remaining unfree countries in Europe needs help and he's there again.
    • Of course, this challenge to slavery faltered in the following decade, and unfree labour survived for half a century in the British empire, and even longer in America.
    • Freedom is hard to define, let alone achieve, but those who are unfree know exactly what unfreedom is.
    • But the implication that Europeans were indifferent to the colour of their slaves rests on an equivocation between unfree labour and slave labour.
    • Some freedom-minded people pin their hope for liberty on withdrawing from an unfree world.
    • This new, democratic and prosperous Iraq is to be a model and magnet for its neighbors, as West Germany and West Berlin were to their unfree neighbors in the cold war.
    • The contributing authors explain how legislation differed for free and unfree labour and that the purpose of master/servant legislation was to make the labour supply and its performance more reliable.
    • The labour needed to work these areas was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land.
    • Until the newest critics of trade give at least one plausible example of how a policy of unfree trade could make a country richer, I'm sticking with the orthodox conclusions.
    • Other Greek cities, not least Athens, were dependent on unfree labour for creating and maintaining a politicised and cultured style of communal life.
    • The triangular slave trade had begun to supply these Atlantic colonies with unfree African labour, for work on tobacco, rice and sugar plantations.
    • Another form of unfree labour was deployed in colonised Australia.
    • Enclosure turned a once independent peasantry into an unfree workforce in thrall to those who had seized hold by robbery of the means of production in the fields and in the towns.

Derivatives

  • unfreedom

  • nounˌʌnˈfriːdəmˌənˈfridəm
    mass noun
    • The state of being deprived of liberty.

      the people have faced a systematic regime of unfreedom
      Example sentencesExamples
      • we can eliminate unfreedom and inequality
      • Freedom is hard to define, let alone achieve, but those who are unfree know exactly what unfreedom is.
      • So he knew at firsthand the humiliating unfreedom that comes from poverty.
      • The best resistance we can offer to the agents of unfreedom is to go on having free, vibrant, open societies.
 
 

Definition of unfree in US English:

unfree

adjectiveˌənˈfrē
  • Deprived or devoid of liberty.

    as long as a man was unfree he had no access to justice
    slavery is just one form of unfree labor
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the implication that Europeans were indifferent to the colour of their slaves rests on an equivocation between unfree labour and slave labour.
    • The act instructs American ambassadors and embassy staffs to draw up democracy transition plans for unfree regimes, with input from nonviolent opposition movements in the various countries.
    • Until the newest critics of trade give at least one plausible example of how a policy of unfree trade could make a country richer, I'm sticking with the orthodox conclusions.
    • We'll up the security until we live in a militarised police state, and we'll be safe but unfree.
    • I believe that peasants should be bound to the land as unfree thralls who do the bidding of the freemen without question.
    • A distinguishing feature of the postwar period was in fact its exceptional reliance on unfree labour.
    • Enclosure turned a once independent peasantry into an unfree workforce in thrall to those who had seized hold by robbery of the means of production in the fields and in the towns.
    • Some freedom-minded people pin their hope for liberty on withdrawing from an unfree world.
    • Moreover, the productivity of investment is 70 percent greater in economically free nations than in unfree nations.
    • Of course, this challenge to slavery faltered in the following decade, and unfree labour survived for half a century in the British empire, and even longer in America.
    • This new, democratic and prosperous Iraq is to be a model and magnet for its neighbors, as West Germany and West Berlin were to their unfree neighbors in the cold war.
    • As we see more of the same action and reaction, the overall story, like all stories of the emancipation of unfree labour, is not for romantics.
    • Freedom is hard to define, let alone achieve, but those who are unfree know exactly what unfreedom is.
    • Another form of unfree labour was deployed in colonised Australia.
    • The triangular slave trade had begun to supply these Atlantic colonies with unfree African labour, for work on tobacco, rice and sugar plantations.
    • Instead of the courts deciding who should be free and who unfree, the home secretary has sought to grab and keep that power for himself.
    • The labour needed to work these areas was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land.
    • Now, one of the few remaining unfree countries in Europe needs help and he's there again.
    • Other Greek cities, not least Athens, were dependent on unfree labour for creating and maintaining a politicised and cultured style of communal life.
    • The contributing authors explain how legislation differed for free and unfree labour and that the purpose of master/servant legislation was to make the labour supply and its performance more reliable.
 
 
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