slaving

Speech parts

1. slaving - Noun

2. slaving - Verb

Meaning

of Slave

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

drudge industry working travail application effort labor busy sweat exertion toil drudgery slavey plodding moil
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Antonyms

plenipotentiary fun freeing mastering unemployment coffee break
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Related terms

white-slaving

Phrases with the word

be slaving at white-slaving slaving at

Anagrams

salving

Examples

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices. Anne Brontë

Every artist has a Dorian Gray slaving away in the attic. John Banville

I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it. Jerome K. Jerome

Slaving gave rise to a division of labor. Eric Wolf

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. Noam Chomsky

I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world. Meg Rosoff

Close letter words and terms

Slavik slavikite Slavin slaving at slavisation slavish