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    THRALLDOM

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The state of being under the control of another personplay

    Synonyms:

    bondage; slavery; thraldom; thrall; thralldom

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("thralldom" is a kind of...):

    subjection; subjugation (forced submission to control by others)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thralldom"):

    bonded labor (a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States)

    servitude (state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment)

    serfdom; serfhood; vassalage (the state of a serf)

    Derivation:

    thrall (the state of being under the control of another person)

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