Slave vs Subordinate - What's the difference?
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A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition.
A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders to something.
A drudge; one who labours like a slave.
An abject person; a wretch.
A person who is forced against his/her will to perform, for another person or other persons, sexual acts or other personal services on a regular or continuing basis.
(engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.
To work hard.
To enslave.
To place a device under the control of another.
* 2005 , Simon Millward, Fast Guide to Cubase SX (page 403)
Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
* Woodward
Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by, authority.
* South
(grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
To make subservient.
To treat as of less value or importance.
(finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
In transitive terms the difference between slave and subordinate
is that slave is to place a device under the control of another while subordinate is to treat as of less value or importance.As nouns the difference between slave and subordinate
is that slave is a person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition while subordinate is (one who is subordinate) One who is subordinate.As verbs the difference between slave and subordinate
is that slave is to work hard while subordinate is to make subservient.As a proper noun Slavé
is alternative form of Slavey|lang=en.As an adjective subordinate is
placed in a lower class, rank, or position.slave
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Alternative forms
: * ** sclaue * ** sclaue ** sclave * ** sclaue ** sklaw ** sklaue ** sklave : * ** slaif ** slaue ** slave (modern spelling developed) * ** slaue ** slave (whenceforth the modern spelling predominated)Noun
(en noun)- a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
- Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd/ Mine innocent child? Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
Derived terms
(terms derived from slave) * antislavery * bondslave * enslave * enslavement * enslaver * no slave to fashion * postslavery * sex slave * sexual slavery * slaveboy * slave code * slavedom * slave driver, slave-driver * Slave Dynasty * slave-girl, slavegirl * slaveholder * slaveholding * slave labour * slaveless * slavelike * slavemaster * slaveowner * slaver * slave to fashion * slavery * slave ship * slave trade * slavey * slavish * wage slave * white slave * white slaver * white slaverySee also
* chattel * indentured servant * * (Slavery)Verb
(slav)- I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
- (Marston)
- to slave a hard disk
- Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation
References
* August 2, 2004 ,"EE Times: Beware 'zombie' clauses* Notes:
Anagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----subordinate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished.
- It was subordinate , not enslaved, to the understanding.
- In the sentence, “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”.