slave-driver
See also: slavedriver and slave driver
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Noun
slave-driver (plural slave-drivers)
- An overseer of slaves at work; a person who puts slaves to work.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago."
- (colloquial, usually hyperbolic or figurative)
- An employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee.
- He's such a slave-driver! I can't believe he wants us to come in on Saturday.
- (by extension, often humorous or sarcastic) Anyone who requests an amount of work from others that is deemed unreasonable.
- Mom, I need a break after doing homework! You're nothing but a slave-driver!
- An employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee.
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overseer of slaves
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employer who demands excessive work
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