{
    "term": "slavery",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the state of being forced to work as a slave",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **be sold into slavery**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Poverty forces children into virtual slavery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The women were sold into sexual slavery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their stated aim was to free women from domestic slavery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were living in slavery and poverty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The organization has helped to expose human slavery rings."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["chattel", "plantation", "domestic"],
                "verb + slavery": ["establish", "introduce", "abolish"],
                "slavery + noun": ["reparations", "issue", "question"],
                "preposition": ["in slavery", "under slavery"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the abolition of slavery",
                    "the end of slavery",
                    "the institution of slavery"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the practice of owning and forcing people to work as slaves",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the abolition of slavery"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in 1865."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["chattel", "plantation", "domestic"],
                "verb + slavery": ["establish", "introduce", "abolish"],
                "slavery + noun": ["reparations", "issue", "question"],
                "preposition": ["in slavery", "under slavery"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the abolition of slavery",
                    "the end of slavery",
                    "the institution of slavery"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsleɪvəri/",
                "audio": "sl/slavery/slavery__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsleɪvəri/",
                "audio": "sl/slavery/slavery__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}