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(US, historical) A code name for a sting operation set up by the FBI in the 1970s to thwart bribery in Congress.
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(historical or obsolete) The member of a large household responsible for buying provisions; provisioner.
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(derogatory) A woman who lazily relies on alimony for financial support.
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A hospital official responsible for patient welfare and after-care.
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The Louisiana State Penitentiary.
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(UK, Australia, historical) A convict assigned to work as a servant for a free settler (either a male or female convict, and either a male or female settler).
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(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A church.
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(informal, Britain) A Yeoman Warder
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(historical) An inmate of a borstal prison for young offenders.
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A reform school for juvenile males.
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(historical) Buchenwald concentration camp.
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Someone who takes care of a place or thing; someone looking after a place, or responsible for keeping it in good repair.
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(Britain) deputy to a foreman in a factory
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A supervisory nurse, usually assigned for a shift.
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(slang, vulgar) A subservient sexual partner to a man.
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A male employee who has a great—and often, in the view of others, an excessive—commitment to serving the interests of the organization which employs him.
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(historical) A householder who pays the rates in his rent, the landlord being immediately chargeable with them.
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(Britain) One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
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(UK) A cleaner who comes in daily.
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The servant that brings the meat to the table at a meal.
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(UK) a place providing care, attention and recreation facilities during the day for people who aren't able to look after themselves properly.
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The member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient.
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A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.
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(Britain, informal) The leader of a group or team, such as a boss, foreman, coach, publican.
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A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
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Alternative spelling of jailkeeper [One who keeps a jail; a jailer.]
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(Britain, slang) A prison warder
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(Australia, euphemistic, obsolete or historical) A convict.
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A woman, girl, or other female force who or which guards; a female guardian.
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(historical) The government agency in charge of the Soviet Union's network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960.
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(usually derogatory) An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
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A paid administrative leave for police officers during a disciplinary investigation.
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One that provides a facility for an event.
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A country in which an international event is held.
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A person employed by a privately owned establishment, such as a hotel or large retail store, with the job of preventing wrongdoing and apprehending violators of laws or other regulations.
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A person with equivalent duties in a theatre, hotel, concert hall, institution, etc.
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(obsolete, nonce word) A low servant; a mean fellow.
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(historical, World War II) A Nazi concentration camp brothel and its battalion of conscripted sex slaves of young Jewish women.
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(historical) A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.
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The use of prison labor and prison farms in the People's Republic of China.
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A professional person (such as a doctor or clergyman) who temporarily fulfills the duties of another.
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A slave whose duties include love and/or being available for sex.
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A person who does maintenance work.
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A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
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(idiomatic) A group of assistants, subordinates, or lackeys
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(Britain) A personal bodyguard.
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(prison slang) A corrections officer who is new to the job.
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(also figurative) A former soldier, or one who has served for a long time.
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The crimes perpetrated by those organizations.
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(US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang.
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(historical) In Nazi concentration camps, an inmate entrusted with minor supervisory duties and rewarded with perquisites.
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Alternative spelling of protégée [A female protégé.]
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(historical) Someone who labours for the public good; a convict assigned to work on public projects.
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(UK) A Yeoman Warder responsible for the feeding and welfare of the ravens of the Tower of London.
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A person who is loyal, as if bound or entranced, to a band, group or organization.
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A task or responsibility that must be attended to.
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(US) A public health or sanitation worker.
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(Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
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(historical) In the Soviet Union, a form of patronage where more skilled or advanced workers (such as military troops or a factory) provided assistance and mentoring to the less skilled (such as farmers and construction labourers).
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A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
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A place where slaves are forced to work
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Alternative form of slaveowner. [Someone that has control or ownership over another human being; the owner of a slave.]
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Someone who owns slaves.
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A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, and/or animals.
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(Canada, US, slang, offensive) A person employed to look after people with mental disabilities.
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A worker with very limited skills and experience in his/her chosen career.
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The state or business of a tide waiter (customs inspector).
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A fictional character who fits into the archetype of being lower-class, being more clever than the other characters, and helping the protagonists.
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An inferior or subordinate labourer.
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The status or office of valet.
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(historical) A person who investigates employers' treatment of workers on behalf of a trade union.
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A sutler accompanying a continental European army, especially the French army.
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someone who works for wages, especially if that wage supports a household
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someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy
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A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman.
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Sexual slavery, particularly the forced prostitution of women of European ancestry.
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(US) A participant in a workfare system
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Obsolete spelling of yeoman [(UK) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).]
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(UK) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).
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a member of the British ruler's personal guard.
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A hostel or other facility operated by the Young Men's Christian Association.
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