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 coffees commanded from three to five cents more than those that came in "pale".
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
West went to a Sweated Bootmakers' protest meeting in his parish room.
From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
On the other hand, in 1909 the luck of the ballot enabled me to bring in a private member's Bill, and I introduced Dilke's Sweated Industries Bill.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
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