sweatshop

[ swet-shop ]

/ ˈswɛtˌʃɒp /

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noun

a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.

Nearby words

sweating sickness, sweating system, sweatpants, sweats, sweatshirt, sweatshop, sweatweed, sweaty, swed., swede, sweden

Origin of sweatshop

First recorded in 1865–70; sweat + shop

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Examples from the Web for sweatshop

Following the tragedy, American Apparel CEO Dov Charney spoke out against overseas, sweatshop production.
American Apparel Stirs Up Controversy…Again|Erin Cunningham|March 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Many of our soldiers were from the mine, the farm, the sweatshop.
A Jewish Chaplain in France|Lee J. Levinger
He rented an airshaft bedroom in the flat of a Jewish sweatshop worker for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week.
The Trail of the Hawk|Sinclair Lewis
More than any other industry in the United States it has been menaced by the sweatshop system.
World's War Events, Vol. II|Various

Says his father's dead and mother earns seventeen a week in a sweatshop and sends him to school.
By Advice of Counsel|Arthur Train
Looks like someone was openin' a sweatshop in the buildin', don't it!
Shorty McCabe on the Job|Sewell Ford

British Dictionary definitions for sweatshop

sweatshop

/ (ˈswɛtˌʃɒp) /

noun

a workshop where employees work long hours under bad conditions for low wages

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Culture definitions for sweatshop

sweatshop

A small factory or shop in which employees are poorly paid and work under adverse conditions. Sweatshops were especially common in the garment industry during the early twentieth century.