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slave / slāv/ • n. chiefly hist. a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. ∎  a person who works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation: by the time I was ten, I had become her slave, doing all the housework. ∎  a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something: the poorest people of the world are slaves to the banks she was no slave to fashion. ∎  a device, or part of one, directly controlled by another: [as adj.] a slave cassette deck. Compare with master1 . ∎ an ant captured in its pupal state by an ant of another species, for which it becomes a worker.• v. [intr.] work excessively hard: after slaving away for fourteen years, all he gets is two thousand. ∎  [tr.] subject (a device) to control by another: should the need arise, the two channels can be slaved together.

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