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Slave Driver

Definition: Slave Driver

Slave Driver

Noun

1. A cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees.

2. A supervisor of slaves at work.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Slave Driver

Synonym: Simon Legree (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Slave Driver

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Come and try, you cracked-brain slave driver! (Watership Down; writing credit: Richard Adams; Martin Rosen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Slave Driver

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The slave driver. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: Slave Driver

Language Translations for "slave driver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shfrytëzues (exploiter, sweater), mbikëqyrës skllavërish, drejtues mizor. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مراقب الأعمال الشاقة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

надзирател на роби (driver), експлоататор (driver, exploiter, flayer, flay-flint, sweater). (various references)

   

Czech

  

otrokář (bondholder, enslaver, slave holder, slaver), dozorce nad otroky. (various references)

   

French

  

surveillant d'esclaves, négrier (slave trader, slaver). (various references)

   

German

  

sklaventreiber, schleifer (cutter, grinder, polisher, polishers, slide, slurred note), schinder (knacker, oppressor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκληρόσ εργοδότησ, σκληρόσ αρχιεργάτησ, επιστάτησ δούλων. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rabszolgahajcsár (driver), rabszolga-felügyelõ. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ansmaghtee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aveslay iverdray

   

Romanian

  

supraveghetor de sclavi (driver), exploatator (exploiter, exploiting, leech). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

эксплуататор (blood-sucker, exploiter, sweater), надсмотрщик над рабами (driver). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nadzornik robova. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

slavdrivare. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kölecibaşı, köle gibi çalıştıran kimse, köle gözcüsü. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

наглядач над рабами, безжалісний начальник. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Slave Driver

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-r-r-s-v-v"

-2 letters: drivelers.

-3 letters: aversive, delivers, derivers, desilver, drearies, driveler, ravelers, realised, realiser, redrives, reraised, resailed, resilver, reversal, revilers, revivals, revivers, sidereal, silvered, silverer, slavered, slaverer, slivered, sliverer.

-4 letters: adverse, advisee, adviser, aediles, arrived, arrives, averred, dealers, dearies, deliver, delvers, derails, deriver, derives, derries, desirer, devisal, deviser, dialers, diverse, drivels, drivers, earlier, evaders, evasive, larders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Slave Driver


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 61 76 65      44 72 69 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000100 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#97 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#68 &#114 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0061 0076 0065      0044 0072 0069 0076 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53786788712388475887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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