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1slave away — variant UK US Main entry: slave …
2slave away — v. (D; intr.) to slave away at; over (to slave away over a hot stove) * * * over (to slave away over a hot stove) (D; intr.) to slave away at …
3slave away (at something) — in. to work very hard (doing something). □ I’m tired of slaving away at this and getting nowhere. D I’m slaving away for $7.00 an hour and have no prospects for the future …
4slave away — see slave 3) …
5slave away — See: slave II …
6slave away — verb to work very hard It’s just the socially approved ones that transfer wealth from men to women, like slaving away in a corporate hellhole and buying dinner at expensive restaurants, that don’t raise the shaming hackles of banal,… …
7slave — I UK [sleɪv] / US noun [countable] Word forms slave : singular slave plural slaves ** a) someone who belongs by law to another person as their property and has to obey them and work for them b) someone who works very hard for someone else and… …
8slave — slave1 [sleıv] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: esclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus, from Sclavus ( SLAVIC); because in the early Middle Ages many Slavic people in central Europe were slaves] 1.) someone who is owned by another person… …
9slave — [[t]sle͟ɪv[/t]] slaves, slaving, slaved 1) N COUNT A slave is someone who is the property of another person and has to work for that person. The state of Liberia was formed a century and a half ago by freed slaves from the United States. 2) N… …
10Slave Lake Inn and Conference Centre — (Slave Lake,Канада) Категория отеля: Адрес: 1200 Main Street S …
