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pseudoslave

pseudoslave noun: someone whose condition resembles, but is not actually, slavery.

Noun

pseudoslave (plural pseudoslaves)

  1. Someone whose condition resembles, but is not actually, slavery
    • Minor leaguers and players with less than three years of service time remain pseudoslaves.2009 August 23, Dan Rosenheck, “Restoring Sanity to Baseball’s Economics”, in New York Times

Forms of pseudoslave

pluralpseudoslaves

Origin of pseudoslave

From pseudo- + slave.

Questions about pseudoslave

What does pseudoslave mean?
Pseudoslave means someone whose condition resembles, but is not actually, slavery.
What part of speech is pseudoslave?
Pseudoslave is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudoslave?
The plural of pseudoslave is pseudoslaves.

Words near pseudoslave in the dictionary

  1. pseudoskeptical
  2. pseudoskepticism
  3. pseudoskeptics
  4. pseudoskill
  5. pseudoskills
  6. pseudoslave
  7. pseudoslavery
  8. pseudoslaves
  9. pseudosocial
  10. pseudosocialistic
  11. pseudosociologies

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