FREEDOM FROM INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freedom from involuntary servitude mean? 

• FREEDOM FROM INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE (noun)
  The noun FREEDOM FROM INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE has 1 sense:

1. a civil right guaranteed by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution

  Familiarity information: FREEDOM FROM INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEDOM FROM INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A civil right guaranteed by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("freedom from involuntary servitude" is a kind of...):

civil right (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)