Tra từ slave - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

slave [slave slaves slaved slaving] noun, verb BrE [sleɪv] NAmE [sleɪv]
noun
1. a person who is owned by another person and is forced to work for them
•She treated her daughter like a slave.
•slave owners
2. a person who is so strongly influenced by sth that they cannot live without it, or cannot make their own decisions
•~ of sth We are slaves of the motor car.
•~ to sth Sue's a slave to fashion.
3. (technical)a device that is directly controlled by another one

Word Origin:
Middle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th cent.

Example Bank:
•I'll be working long hours for slave wages!
•She was forced to work as a virtual slave for a rich family.
•They work as wage slaves for 13 cents an hour.
•Virginia was the largest slave state in the Union.
•Without slave labour/labor, the tobacco industry would have collapsed.
•a railway built by slave labour
•a slave of habit
•a slave to fashion
•galley slaves at the oars of Mediterranean ships
•landowners who freed their slaves voluntarily
•studies comparing slave societies throughout history
•the abolition of the slave trade
•the slave quarters at the rear of the house
•the son of former slaves

verb intransitive ~ (away) (at sth)
to work very hard
•I've been slaving away all day trying to get this work finished.
•I haven't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove (= doing a lot of cooking).
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: shortening of Old French esclave, equivalent of medieval Latin sclava (feminine) ‘Slavonic (captive)’: the Slavonic peoples had been reduced to a servile state by conquest in the 9th cent.

Example Bank:
•I haven't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove.
•I've been slaving away all day trying to get this work finished.