sweated

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English

Verb

sweated

  1. simple past and past participle of sweat

Adjective

sweated (comparative more sweated, superlative most sweated)

  1. Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
    • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. , →OCLC:
      “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, Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy, Part III:
      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 […]
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