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As I was reading a character's biography :

Jack, a small orphan child on transport ship that crashed on the Pitch Black planet. During the movie it is discovered that the child dresses like a boy, but is actually female.

In the second installment of the series, we discover that she attempts to replicate Riddick's eyes and fate by joining a bounty hunter crew. She was slaved out, and when attempting to escape murdered her captives, and sent to a prison.

At the end of Chronicles, she is killed during the fight with the Lord Marshall.

I was wondering what "slaved out" exactly means. I tried to ask my friends, whose English is way better than mine, but they could not provide an answer.

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    slave 6. (often foll by: away) to work like a slave thefreedictionary.com/slave
    – Kris
    Commented Jun 28, 2014 at 6:52
  • @Kris, thanks, was raping involved, especially? Commented Jun 28, 2014 at 7:33
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    I take 'slaved out' to mean 'sold into slavery' or perhaps 'rented out as a slave'. Incidentally, the text you quoted is full of grammatical mistakes and continuity errors; for example, it should have said "murdered her captors, and was sent to a prison". The first sentence lacks an active verb. What exactly does "she attempts to replicate Riddick's eyes and fate" mean?
    – Erik Kowal
    Commented Jun 28, 2014 at 8:14
  • @ErikKowal Thanks for the explanation and corrections, i copied this content from IMDB. I added a dialogue in my question, which will help you understand it better (the eyes part) Commented Jun 28, 2014 at 9:25

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Slave out likely refers to the archaic practice of forcing criminals, prisoners of war, or victims of kidnapping into slavery. From the transitive verb definition of slave:

transitive verb

1 archaic : enslave

merriam-webster.com

The dialogue of Desert World Allegiances, by Lena Gala, suggests criminals sentenced to slavery:

“That we are,” Naite agreed. “And we need to make changes, but there isn't a better solution. And I'm saying that as someone who has both survived a long slavery sentence and is facing another."

"You ... What?" Shan asked, his stomach souring at Naite's casual attitude toward slavery after all these horrors.

“Why would you be slaved out?” Temar sat up, his face alarmed.

“I'm likely to be slaved out to you, Temar. I don't have any training, and I definitely don't have money for fines, ... It's that or hand over half my pay for the rest of my life, and trust me, I'd rather be slaved out for a time and have it done and over with.”

Emphasis mine

The dialogue of The Doctrine of Presence, by Benjamin Vance, suggest prisoners of war pressed into slavery:

"...I don't know about combat, but if that happens I'll keep my head down and let you guys take care of it.”

“What if we can't take care of it? What happens to you?”

“I get killed too, or slaved out, who the shit knows in this world, from one minute to the next with these crazy Islamic fascists loose?"

Emphasis mine

The description of Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts, by Max Carocci, et al, suggests kidnapping victims forced into slavery:

Also, the most vulnerable populations such as the mission Indians of Spanish Florida had been slaved out. Slave catchers were simply running out of people to enslave.

Emphasis mine

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