Slave

The word slaves has several meanings and usages:

• People who are owned by others, and live to serve them without pay. See slavery.
• Slaves are a technical term denoting a piece of equipment whose functioning is dependent on that of another piece of equipment. See slaves clock, slaves station, slaves drive.
• Slaves are a term often used in BDSM to conote a specific form of submissive.
• Slaves were also the name of a 1970s funk band.
• Slavey (pronounced as SLAY-vi) is a First Nations people around the Great Slave Lake. The name of the people was "slaves" but was changed due to a homograph. They speak the Slavey language.
• Slave, refer to the master/slave configuration in Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA).