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sweated - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sweated'

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sweat)
  • Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
  • * 1913 ,
  • *:“Do you like jennying?” he asked.
  • *:“What can a woman do!” she replied bitterly.
  • *:“Is it sweated ?”
  • *:“More or less. Isn’t all woman’s work? That’s another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market.”
  • * 1920 , Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy ,
  • So long as the African slave-trade lasted, the importation of slaves being presumably cheaper than breeding them, the industries run by slave labor were economically in much the same position as our own sweated trades [...]