| Main Entry: | slave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who serves, often under duress |
Synonyms: |
bondservant, captive, chattel, drudge, help, laborer, menial, peon, retainer, serf, servant, skivvy, subservient, thrall, toiler, vassal, victim, worker, workhorse |
Antonyms: |
master |
| Main Entry: | slave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
Synonyms: |
be servile, drudge, grind, grovel, grub, muck, plod, skivvy, slog, toil, work fingers to bone |
Antonyms: |
be lazy |
| Main Entry: | captive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person held physically |
Synonyms: |
bondman, bondservant, bondwoman, con, convict, detainee, hostage, internee, prisoner, prisoner of war, slave |
Antonyms: |
free man, independent |
| Main Entry: | drudge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
Synonyms: |
back to the salt mines, dig, grind*, hammer*, keep nose to grindstone, labor, muck, perform, plod, plow, plug away, pound*, schlepp, slave, slog, sweat, toil, travail |
Antonyms: |
avoid, be lazy, dodge, hesitate, idle |
| Main Entry: | employee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person being paid for working for another or a corporation |
Synonyms: |
agent, apprentice, assistant, attendant, blue collar, breadwinner, clerk, cog, company person, craftsperson, desk jockey, domestic, hand, help, hired gun, hired hand, hireling, jobholder, laborer, member, operator, pink collar, plug*, representative, sales help, salesperson, servant, slave, staff member, wage-earner, white collar, worker, working stiff |
| Main Entry: | forced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compulsory, strained |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, begrudging, binding, bound, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, grudging, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden |
| Notes: | forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force |
Antonyms: |
noncompulsory, spontaneous, unforced, voluntary |
| Main Entry: | grub |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
Synonyms: |
drudge, grind, labor, moil, plod, slave, slog, sweat, toil |
Antonyms: |
idle, laze, tinker |
| Main Entry: | hack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does easy work for money |
Synonyms: |
drudge*, greasy grind, grind*, hireling, lackey, old pro, plodder, pro*, servant, slave, workhorse |
| Main Entry: | keep at |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue, endure |
Synonyms: |
be steadfast, carry on, complete, drudge, finish, grind, labor, last, maintain, persevere, persist, remain, slave, stay, stick, toil |
Antonyms: |
discontinue, give in, give up |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
Synonyms: |
bear down, cultivate, drive, drudge, endeavor, exert oneself, grind, plod, plug away, pour it on, slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, tend, toil, travail, work oneself to the bone |
Antonyms: |
idle, laze, relax |