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servitude

/sur-vi-tood, -tyood/US // ˈsɜr vɪˌtud, -ˌtyud //UK // (ˈsɜːvɪˌtjuːd) //

奴役,劳役,苦役,奴隶制

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.
    • : compulsory service or labor as a punishment for criminals: penal servitude.
    • : Law. a right possessed by one person to use another's property.

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Examples

  • Single women’s wage-earning was curtailed by a regime of compulsory servitude.

  • The hours are long and there’s a rank smell of indentured servitude.

  • This amendment prohibited denying a person to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

  • These women are exploited for several purposes, including labor, forced-marriage, and domestic servitude.

  • If the indentured-servitude thesis is correct, it should be a pretty low number, right?

  • Trapped in the cycle of permanent emergency and perpetual action, he wrote, “servitude has no rest, agitation no pleasure.”

  • But the rush to replace words with images may be preparing us for servitude.

  • The white Hempstead, for instance, worked his way out of indentured servitude, the next step up from slavery.

  • “I tried to kill myself twice,” says Atia, now 14 and still living in servitude.

  • But by the pleasure led,Of that sweet likeness, that allured me so,A long and heavy servitude to bear.

  • They require, and in many instances they merit, all that can be done to alleviate a situation of servitude.

  • The seigneurs imposed servitude, the friars preached resignation, and the people of Gaul became cowardly, selfish and cruel.

  • On the other hand they were likely to prove intractable and ungovernable, and many preferred even suicide to servitude.

  • Indifferent was M. Louis, for whom it was the last day of servitude, a slave become emancipated, rich enough to enjoy his ransom.