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dulosis, slavery (s) (noun) (no pl)
The relation in which workers of a parasitic (dulotic) ant species raid the nests of another species, capture brood (usually in the form of pupae), and rear them as enslaved nest mates: In entomology, dulosis takes place when parasitic ants steal pupae from the nests of another ant species and raise them in their own colony and have them do work. This is a kind of slavery.
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slavery (s) (noun), slaveries (pl)
Work that is often done under harsh conditions for little or no pay: Slavery is a system based on using the enforced labor of other people. For more information, click on this slavery link.

Slavery is known as an institution or social practice of owning human beings as property; especially, when they are used as forced laborers.

This entry is located in the following unit: English Words in Action, Group S (page 7)