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δουλεία — meaning in English

douleia

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English meaning

  • employment noun A paid job or work that someone does regularly.
  • enslavement noun The act of forcing someone into slavery, or the resulting condition.
  • job noun A paid position of regular employment.
  • labour noun Hard physical or mental effort put into a task; work.
  • servitude noun The condition of being forced to work for someone else with little or no freedom, often against one's will.
  • slavery noun The practice or system of owning people as property and forcing them to work.
  • task noun A specific piece of work that needs to be done.
  • work noun A job or occupation; the activity someone does to earn a living.

Senses

δουλεία is used for these senses in English:

  • employment The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
  • enslavement The act of enslaving or the state of being a slave; bondage
  • job An economic role for which a person is paid.
  • job (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
  • labour (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
  • servitude The state of being a slave; slavery; being forced to work for others or do their bidding without one's consent or against one's will, either in perpetuity or for a period of time over which one has little or no control.
  • work Labour, occupation, job.
  • work (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.

employment — full definition

  1. noun A paid job or work that someone does regularly.
  2. noun The state or condition of having a paid job.

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