enslavement

English

Etymology

enslave +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

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Noun

enslavement (countable and uncountable, plural enslavements)

1. The act of enslaving or the state of being a slave; bondage
   • 1973 July 22 [1973 July 17], Kai-shek Chiang, “President Chiang Kai-shek's message to the mass rally supporting Captive Nations Week”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XIV, number 28, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 4:

     I should like to take this opportunity to express my wish for success and victory in our struggle against Communism and enslavement and for freedom and peace.

Translations

the act of enslaving or the state of being a slave; bondage

• Azerbaijani: kölələşdirilmə
• Bulgarian: поробване (bg) n (porobvane)
• Catalan: esclavització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奴役 (zh) (núyì)

• Czech: zotročení n
• Finnish: orjuutus (fi)
• French: asservissement (fr) m, esclavage (fr) m
• German: Versklavung (de) f
• Greek: δουλεία (el) f (douleía), υποδούλωση (el) f (ypodoúlosi), σκλάβωμα (el) n (sklávoma)
• Kalmyk: бөгллһн (bögllğn)
• Maori: ponongatanga, whakapononga, whakarōrā, whakaponongatanga
• Polish: zniewolenie (pl) n
• Russian: порабоще́ние (ru) n (poraboščénije)
• Spanish: esclavización f
• Swedish: förslavning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: поневолювання n (ponevoljuvannja), поневолення n (ponevolennja)