From slave + -ery.

• IPA: /ˈsleɪvəɹi/, /ˈsleɪvɹi/

slavery (uncountable)

1. An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
2. Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
3. A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=I or II), scene ii ↗:

     If you wil willingly remaine with me,
     You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be:
     Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.

4. (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
   • 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 8, stanza 16:

     Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery.

• French: esclavage
• German: Sklaverei
• Italian: schiavismo
• Portuguese: escravidão, escravatura
• Russian: ра́бство
• Spanish: esclavitud

• French: esclavage
• German: Sklaverei
• Italian: schiavitù
• Portuguese: escravidão
• Russian: ра́бство
• Spanish: esclavitud

• French: esclavage
• German: Sklaverei
• Portuguese: escravidão
• Russian: ра́бство
• Spanish: esclavitud

From slaver + -y.

• IPA: /ˈslævəɹi/, /ˈslævɹi/

slavery

1. Covered in slaver; slobbery.