sweated

[ swet-id ]

adjective

made by underpaid workers.
underpaid and overworked.

having poor working conditions.

Origin of sweated

1645–55 for earlier sense “saturated with sweat”; 1880–85 for def. 2; sweat + -ed²

Other words from sweated

un·sweat·ed, adjective

Words Nearby sweated

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How to use sweated in a sentence

But oh, God, those hours while I sweated it out until I saw my mother!
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Privately, he had huge inhibitions about hustling, but he fought them down and sweated.
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Every time we drove the two hours there, we sweated bullets for fear of being discovered.
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While we skulked in the shadows, they had studied and sweated and changed the face of their world.
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Manilla tobacco usually burns well, if the leaf is of good quality and well sweated, still it is known as a non-burning tobacco.
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Not like New York, that never expresses an opinion until a sort of consensus has sweated up to the surface.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
If I'd only known all about it, I would have sweated to death on the hottest day of the summer rather than not have obliged him.
Harper's Young People, November 30, 1880 | Various
Strife and hard work had sweated all the fat from his bones.
Hunters Out of Space | Joseph Everidge Kelleam
Bart lay still and sweated, trying to ease his uncomfortable position, unable to move so much as a finger.
The Colors of Space | Marion Zimmer Bradley

British Dictionary definitions for sweated

sweated

/ (ˈswɛtɪd) /

adjective

made by exploited labour: sweated goods
(of workers, etc) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay

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