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{
"term": "slavery",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the state of being forced to work as a slave",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **be sold into slavery**"
},
{
"text": "Poverty forces children into virtual slavery."
},
{
"text": "The women were sold into sexual slavery."
},
{
"text": "Their stated aim was to free women from domestic slavery."
},
{
"text": "They were living in slavery and poverty."
},
{
"text": "The organization has helped to expose human slavery rings."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["chattel", "plantation", "domestic"],
"verb + slavery": ["establish", "introduce", "abolish"],
"slavery + noun": ["reparations", "issue", "question"],
"preposition": ["in slavery", "under slavery"],
"phrases": [
"the abolition of slavery",
"the end of slavery",
"the institution of slavery"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the practice of owning and forcing people to work as slaves",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the abolition of slavery"
},
{
"text": "The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in 1865."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["chattel", "plantation", "domestic"],
"verb + slavery": ["establish", "introduce", "abolish"],
"slavery + noun": ["reparations", "issue", "question"],
"preposition": ["in slavery", "under slavery"],
"phrases": [
"the abolition of slavery",
"the end of slavery",
"the institution of slavery"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsleɪvəri/",
"audio": "sl/slavery/slavery__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsleɪvəri/",
"audio": "sl/slavery/slavery__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}