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sweated

[swet-id]

adjective

  1. made by underpaid workers.

  2. underpaid and overworked.

  3. having poor working conditions.



sweated

/ ˈɛɪ /

adjective

  1. made by exploited labour

    sweated goods

  2. (of workers, etc) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • unsweated adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sweated1

1645–55 for earlier sense “saturated with sweat”; 1880–85 sweated for def. 2; sweat + -ed 2
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Much of Southern California sweated through a hot Tuesday.

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O’Malley saw it as an appealing location to build a baseball stadium, worked a sweetheart deal with the city and sweated out a referendum on the June 3, 1958, ballot that narrowly passed.

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I sweated out the 24 hours it took to arrive from Amazon.

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Democrats have sweated the electoral consequences of being seen as insufficiently pro-Israel since before it was even a country.

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On the ship, the men slept four to a room in wooden bunk beds, each with one blanket on foam mattresses made soggy by walls that sweated with condensation.

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