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slave trade

slave trade noun: traffic in slaves.

Noun

slave trade (plural slave trades)

  1. Traffic in slaves.
    • There was considerable scepticism as to whether the line would pay, but its avowed intention was to put an end to the slave trade.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262

slave trade meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

slave trade in Hindi

traffic in slaves
दास व्यापार dās vyāpār

slave trade in Urdu

traffic in slaves
بردہ فروشی barda farośī

slave trade in Bengali

slave trade; the business of buying and selling slaves
দাসব্যবসায় daśbæbśaẏ

slave trade in Kannada

ಗುಲಾಮ ವ್ಯಾಪಾರ

Forms of slave trade

pluralslave trades

Questions about slave trade

What does slave trade mean?
Slave trade means traffic in slaves.
What is slave trade in Hindi?
Slave trade in Hindi is दास व्यापार (dās vyāpār). See Slave trade meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is slave trade?
Slave trade is a noun.
What is the plural of slave trade?
The plural of slave trade is slave trades.

Words near slave trade in the dictionary

  1. slave ships
  2. slave state
  3. slave states
  4. slave to fashion
  5. slave to the wage
  6. slave trade
  7. slave trader
  8. slave traders
  9. slave trades
  10. slave wage
  11. slave wages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slave trade (page history and authors); দাসব্যবসায় (Bengali) (page history and authors); slave trade (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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