The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slave \Slave\ (sl[=a]v), n. [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See Slav.]
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A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
Art thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge?
--Milton. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
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An abject person; a wretch. --Shak. Slave ant (Zo["o]l.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially Formica fusca of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by Formica sanguinea. Slave catcher, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master. Slave coast, part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners. Slave driver, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster. Slave hunt.
A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery.
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A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds.
Slave ship, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver.
Slave trade, the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere.
Slave trader, one who traffics in slaves.
Syn: Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See Serf.
WordNet
n. a person engaged in slave trade [syn: slaver, slave dealer]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "slave trader".
I shouted so loudly that heads turned throughout the camp, and the slave trader came running to beg that I not mishandle his merchandise.
The slave trader who had brokered the girls had been easy enough to find, but at the market where Kamlio's sibling should have been turned over to her tong purchaser, all traces of her vanished.
I'd locked myself into the role of a slave trader as securely as I'd locked Del into iron.
It was only when far out to sea that he discovered she was an illicit slave trader, sailing down to Dakar for slaves and then across the lower Atlantic and the doldrums to Savannah, the men, women and children crushed belowdecks like maggots.
Why is my Lord of Death not a big Arab slave trader, as it would be in my own village?
Yes, he was a slave trader and probably a pirate when occasion offered, but this was the thirteenth century before Christ—.
She was killed by the Makkon, a Chaos beast and he was hung by the slave trader, Dujuk'kan.