slave-driver

See also: slavedriver and slave driver

English edit

slave-driver (plural slave-drivers)

An overseer of slaves at work; a person who puts slaves to work.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  "That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago."
(colloquial, usually hyperbolic or figurative)
1. An employer or supervisor who demands excessive amounts of work from an employee.
  He's such a slave-driver! I can't believe he wants us to come in on Saturday.
2. (by extension, often humorous or sarcastic) Anyone who requests an amount of work from others that is deemed unreasonable.
  Mom, I need a break after doing homework! You're nothing but a slave-driver!

overseer of slaves

employer who demands excessive work