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