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Noun: slaveholding
  1. The practice of owning slaves
    "Slaveholding was abolished in the United States after the Civil War";
    - slavery
Adjective: slaveholding
  1. Allowing slavery
    "the slaveholding South"

Derived forms: slaveholdings

See also: unfree

Type of: pattern, practice