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sweatshop
sweat·shop S0937400 (swĕt′shŏp′)n. A shop or factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions.sweatshop (ˈswɛtˌʃɒp) n (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a workshop where employees work long hours under bad conditions for low wagessweat•shop (ˈswɛtˌʃɒp)
n. a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions. [1865–70] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  sweatshop - factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industryfactory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill - a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
Translationssweatshop
sweatshop1. A factory or workshop in which employees are forced to do very hard work, especially the manufacturing of clothing, for long hours with very low wages. Can be used facetiously to describe generally unpleasant or undesirable work conditions. The massive retailer recently committed to stop selling clothes produced in sweatshops. The charity aims to help find better employment opportunities for workers who hitherto had no option but to work in sweatshops to make ends meet. They've really turned the office into a sweatshop, making us work 70-hour weeks to get this project finished before the deadline.2. Of, describing, or pertaining to such a factory or workshop. It's no secret that the clothing line has been using sweatshop labor for years to produce their goods at the lowest possible cost. The life expectancy of workers subjected to sweatshop conditions is unsurprisingly very low.sweat-shop n. a workplace where employees work long hours for low pay in poor conditions. The bank manager is unfair! I’ve been a teller in this sweat-shop for thirteen years, and I’ve never had a new carpet in my office. sweatshop
sweatshop: see sweating systemsweating system,
method of exploiting labor by supplying materials to workers and paying by the piece (see piecework) for work done on those materials in the workers' homes or in small workshops (sweatshops).
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SweatshopA factory or other workplace where persons work for unusually low pay. The word connotes places where labor laws are consistently violated. For example, sweatshops may pay below minimum wage and hire underage persons. Alternatively, sweatshops may be legally set up in countries that have very few labor laws, but many still consider them unethical or immoral.sweatshop
Words related to sweatshopnoun factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unionsRelated Words- factory
- manufactory
- manufacturing plant
- mill
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