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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slavery |
| Synonyms: | bondage, bonds, chains, confinement, enslavement, obedience, peonage, serfdom, serfhood, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, vassalage, yoke |
| Antonyms: | mastery |
| Main Entry: | captivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical detention by force |
| Synonyms: | bondage, committal, confinement, constraint, custody, durance, duress, enslavement, enthrallment, entombment, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, jail, limbo, restraint, serfdom, servitude, slavery, subjection, thralldom, vassalage |
| Antonyms: | freedom, independence, liberty, license |
| Main Entry: | slavery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of working under duress or without freedom |
| Synonyms: | bondage, bullwork, captivity, chains constraint, drudge, drudgery, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, grind, helotry, indenture, labor, menial labor, moil, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servitude, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, toil, vassalage, work |
| Antonyms: | mastery |
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | labor, chore |
| Synonyms: | assignment, attempt, commission, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, exertion, functioning, grind, grindstone, industry, job, moil, muscle, obligation, pains, performance, production, push, salt mines, servitude, slogging, stint, stress, striving, struggle, sweat*, task, toil, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | yoke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bondage, bond |
| Synonyms: | burden, chain, coupling, enslavement, helotry, knot, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, oppression, peonage, serfdom, service, servility, servitude, slavery, tie |
| Notes: | a yoke is a crossbar joining animals or something figuratively holding things together; a yolk is the yellow of an egg |
| Main Entry: | enslavement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thralldom |
| Synonyms: | servitude, slavery, subjection |
| Main Entry: | labor camp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prison camp |
| Synonyms: | Gulag, chain gang, corvee, forced labor camp, hard labor, rock pile, servitude, slavery |
| Main Entry: | subordination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | subjection |
| Synonyms: | servitude, submission, subservience |
| Main Entry: | thrall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bondage |
| Synonyms: | servitude, slavery |
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