slave

/sleɪv/ n [C]

Definition

› social studies a person who is legally owned by someone else and has no personal freedom: Born a slave in 1760, he was sold as a child to a farmer in Delaware.

(Definition of slave n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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