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sweated
[swet-id]
adjective
made by underpaid workers.
underpaid and overworked.
having poor working conditions.
sweated
/ ˈɛɪ /
adjective
made by exploited labour
sweated goods
(of workers, etc) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
Other 51Թ Forms
- unsweated adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sweated1
Example Sentences
Much of Southern California sweated through a hot Tuesday.
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.
I sweated out the 24 hours it took to arrive from Amazon.
Democrats have sweated the electoral consequences of being seen as insufficiently pro-Israel since before it was even a country.
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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