Usually means: Ownership and exploitation of humans.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word slavery:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. slavery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slavery: Merriam-Webster
  3. slavery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slavery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slavery: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slavery: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slavery, slavery: Wordnik
  8. slavery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slavery: Wiktionary
  10. slavery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slavery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slavery: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slavery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Slavery (Ottoman Empire), Slavery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Slavery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. slavery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. slavery: Rhymezone
  18. slavery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. slavery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. slavery: FreeDictionary.org
  21. slavery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. slavery: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. slavery: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. slavery: Dictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. slavery: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slavery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slavery: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
noun:  Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
noun:  A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
noun:  (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
adjective:  Covered in slaver; slobbery.

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