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  • noun A person who puts slaves to work.
  • noun slang a person who demands excessive amounts of work from employees.

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Examples

  • No; he's an Irishman, and a slave-driver, and my best friend.

    THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

  • Pocock1 won his spurs as a slave-driver and earned the undying hatred of the proletariat.

    Chapter 16: The End 2010

  • My heart leapt at beholding this mighty figure of a man-killer and slave-driver, it is true, but who sprang first into the teeth of danger so that his slaves might follow, and who emerged with a half-drowned slave in either hand.

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • At the height and crisis of storm he had taken charge of the Elsinore, and Mr. Pike had become, what in truth was all he was, the foreman of a gang of men, the slave-driver of slaves, serving the one from beyond -- the Samurai.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • I just would have hoped for more from such a notorious perfectionist and slave-driver like James Cameron.

    Archive 2010-07-01 2010

  • My word, she's a slave-driver -- 'Just one more heave, Mr. Sparrowhawk, and then you can go to bed for a week', -- she to me, and me staggerin '' round like a dead man, with bilious-green lights flashing inside my head, an 'my head just bustin'.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • I just would have hoped for more from such a notorious perfectionist and slave-driver like James Cameron.

    Rabid Rewind: Avatar 2010

  • Americans aren't to blame: after all it was another Russian scientist, Boris Rosing, who invented the cathode ray tube in 1907 and gave the world a slave-driver in each living room.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Pavlovian Sleight-of-Words 2010

  • Americans aren't to blame: after all it was another Russian scientist, Boris Rosing, who invented the cathode ray tube in 1907 and gave the world a slave-driver in each living room.

    Pavlovian Sleight-of-Words 2010

  • It may be unfair to say that my favorite voice of the evening was Michael Sumuel's: unfair, because as the slave-driver Osmin, Sumuel had only one aria, and therefore got to sound fresh and easy while his colleagues wore themselves out.

    Anne Midgette revisits Wolf Trap's staging of Mozart's 'Zaide' 2010

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