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English
Etymology
From sweat + -ee.
Noun
sweatee (plural sweatees)
- (historical) A subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.
- Coordinate term: sweater
- 1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)
- If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.