sweated
English
Verb
sweated
- simple past and past participle of sweat
Adjective
sweated (comparative more sweated, superlative most sweated)
- Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- “Do you like jennying?” he asked.
“What can a woman do!” she replied bitterly.
“Is it sweated?”
“More or less. Isn’t all woman’s work? That’s another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market.”
- 1920, Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy, Part III
- So long as the African slave-trade lasted, the importation of slaves being presumably cheaper than breeding them, the industries run by slave labor were economically in much the same position as our own sweated trades […]