sweated
Americanadjective
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made by underpaid workers.
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underpaid and overworked.
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having poor working conditions.
adjective
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made by exploited labour
sweated goods
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(of workers, etc) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of sweated
1645–55 for earlier sense “saturated with sweat”; 1880–85 sweated for def. 2; sweat + -ed 2
Example Sentences
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Sweated workers could also make hats, buttons, artificial flowers, simple furniture, and hundreds of other articles that could be assembled in a series of simple tasks.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Sweated, froze, got sleeted on, rained on, snowed on, and never saw a deer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sweated labour can be abolished and must be abolished, and it can be abolished, as I may show in another book, without destroying the home.
From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis
Sweated industries are the unorganised industries, those in which there is no possibility of organisation among the workers.
From Constructive Imperialism by Milner, Viscount
I Set out late and arrived at Sunset and informd. the natives that in the morning I would trade with them. he gave me onions to eate which had been Sweated.
From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Lewis, Meriwether
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