<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another and forced to provide unpaid labor.</li><li>a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: She was a slave to her own ambition.</li><li>a drudge: a housekeeping slave.</li><li>a slave ant.</li><li>Photography: a subsidiary flash lamp actuated through its photoelectric cell when the principal flash lamp is discharged.</li><li>Machinery, Computers: a device or process under control of or repeating the actions of a similar device or process.</li><li>Compare master (def 21).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>slaved, slav·ing: to work like a slave; drudge.</li><li>Synonyms: grind, slog, labor, toil.</li><li>to engage in the slave trade; procure, transport, or sell slaves.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>slaved, slav·ing: Machinery, Computers: to connect (a device) to a master as its slave.</li><li>Archaic: to enslave.</li></ul>