Indentured servitude is often contrasted with chattel slavery.
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Chattel
//ˈt͡ʃæt.l̩//
Synonyms for "chattel" (44 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (22)
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6 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 17 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- eiendom noun (tangible, movable property)
- slaaf noun (slave)
Bulgarian
2 entries- движимо имущество noun (tangible, movable property)
- движимост noun (tangible, movable property)
Danish
1 entries- løsøre noun (tangible, movable property)
Dutch
4 entries- bezit noun (tangible, movable property)
- eigendom noun (tangible, movable property)
- goed noun (tangible, movable property)
- have noun (tangible, movable property)
Esperanto
1 entries- propraĵo noun (tangible, movable property)
Finnish
3 entries- irtain noun (tangible, movable property)
- orja noun (slave)
- sielu noun (slave)
Galician
2 entries- ben móbel noun (tangible, movable property)
- móbel noun (tangible, movable property)
German
2 entries- Habe noun (tangible, movable property)
- bewegliches Gut noun (tangible, movable property)
Hungarian
3 entries- ingó vagyon noun (tangible, movable property)
- ingóság noun (tangible, movable property)
- rabszolga noun (slave)
Japanese
1 entries- 動産 noun (tangible, movable property)
Māori
1 entries- rirohanga noun (tangible, movable property)
Old Norse
1 entries- lausaeyrir noun (tangible, movable property)
Polish
4 entries- majątek ruchomy noun (tangible, movable property)
- niewolnica noun (slave)
- niewolnik noun (slave)
- ruchomość noun (tangible, movable property)
Russian
2 entries- движимое иму́щество noun (tangible, movable property)
- раб noun (slave)
Spanish
1 entries- esclavo noun (slave)
Swedish
1 entries- lösöre noun (tangible, movable property)
Ukrainian
4 entries- неві́льник noun (slave)
- неві́льниця noun (slave)
- раб noun (slave)
- раба́ noun (slave)
Sample sentences
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Indentured servitude and chattel slavery are two completely different things.
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He treats them like chattel.
Source: tatoeba (10093955)
[…] although of course the firm had changed hands many times over the centuries, […] But the box has always been part of the chattels, as it were.
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