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sweat shop

[swet-shop]

sweat·shop

[swet-shop]
noun
a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.

Origin:
1865–70; sweat + shop
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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sweatshop definition


A small factory or shop in which employees are poorly paid and work under adverse conditions. Sweatshops were especially common in the garment industry during the early twentieth century.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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sweat-shop definition


  1. 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.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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