slave labournoun [ U ]
uk/ˌsleɪv ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˌsleɪv ˈleɪ.bɚ/work done by slaves
informal disapproving very hard work for which people are paid very little:
It's slave labour working in that office.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- shiftwork
- short time
- skilled
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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