"slave-driver" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-slave-driver.ogg [Australia] Forms: slave-drivers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} slave-driver (plural slave-drivers)
  1. An overseer of slaves at work; a person who puts slaves to work. Categories (topical): Slavery Translations (overseer of slaves): надзирател (nadziratel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), orjapiiskuri (Finnish), esclavagiste [feminine, masculine] (French), négrier [masculine] (French), négrière [feminine] (French), escravista [feminine, masculine] (Galician), negreiro [masculine] (Galician), negreira [feminine] (Galician), slaveoppsynsmann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), esclavista [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), negrero [masculine] (Spanish), negrera [feminine] (Spanish), slavdrivare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-slave-driver-en-noun-0cJucMfv Disambiguation of Slavery: 49 35 16 Disambiguation of 'overseer of slaves': 78 17 4
  2. (colloquial, usually hyperbolic or figurative)
    An employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee.
    Tags: colloquial, excessive, figuratively, usually Translations (employer who demands excessive work): експлоататор (eksploatator) [masculine] (Bulgarian), orjapiiskuri (Finnish), négrier [masculine] (French), négrière [feminine] (French), escravista [feminine, masculine] (Galician), negreiro [masculine] (Galician), negreira [feminine] (Galician), slavedriver [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), escravista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), negreiro [masculine] (Portuguese), negreira [feminine] (Portuguese), negrero [masculine] (Spanish), negrera [feminine] (Spanish), slavdrivare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-slave-driver-en-noun-mPkxI~er Categories (other): English hyperboles, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 71 13 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 10 78 12 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 14 70 16 Disambiguation of 'employer who demands excessive work': 19 65 16
  3. (colloquial, usually hyperbolic or figurative)
    (by extension, often humorous or sarcastic) Anyone who requests an amount of work from others that is deemed unreasonable.
    Tags: broadly, colloquial, excessive, figuratively, usually
    Sense id: en-slave-driver-en-noun-GSMJ8PsX Categories (other): English hyperboles
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: taskmaster

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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