sweated

[swet-id]

adjective

1. made by underpaid workers.

2. underpaid and overworked.

3. having poor working conditions.

sweated

/ ˈswɛtɪd /

adjective

1. made by exploited labour

   sweated goods

2. (of workers, etc) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay

Other Word Forms

• unsweated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of sweated¹

1645–55 for earlier sense “saturated with sweat”; 1880–85 sweated for def. 2; sweat + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Exhausted entrants to the Great North Run sweated their way through Newcastle, Gateshead and South Shields to pick up their medals last week.

From BBC

RFK had sweated through a teal t-shirt, which he had tucked into blue jeans.

From Salon

As the temperature neared 90 degrees, one resident sweated as he stripped an electrical wire for copper to sell.

From Los Angeles Times

The famous ballad 'McAlpine's Fusiliers' remembers how they "sweated blood and they washed down mud with pints and quarts of beer".

From BBC

Much of Southern California sweated through a hot Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times