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slave-driver |
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slave-driver n
1. (Sociology) (esp formerly) a person forcing slaves to work 2. (Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) an employer who demands excessively hard work from his employees Translations slave-driver [ˈsleɪvˌdraɪvəʳ] n → sorvegliante m di schiavi (fig) → schiavista m/f slave-driver [ˈsleɪvˌdraɪvəʳ] n → sorvegliante m di schiavi (fig) → schiavista m/f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Pocock* won his spurs as a slave-driver and earned the undying hatred of the proletariat. Erskine is at least neither a gambler nor a slave-driver at first hand; if he lives upon plundered labor he can no more help himself than I. All his life he had thwarted her, stolen from her, used her as one could not use even a hired hand, worked her more as a slave-driver hurries his underlings that profits may mount; now, by her mere existence, she was thwarting him. |
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