sweatshop
pronunciation
How to pronounce sweatshop in British English:
UK [ˈswetʃɒp]
How to pronounce sweatshop in American English:
US [ˈswetʃɑp]
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- Noun:
- factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
Word Origin
- sweatshop (n.)
- also sweat-shop, 1892, from sweat (v.) + shop (n.). The verb sweat is attested from 1879 in the sense "employ (someone) in hard work for low wages," and compare sweater "one who exacts wages at very low prices" (1846).
Example
- 1. It didn 't look like a sweatshop , frankly .
- 2. Yet the sweatshop image is outdated .
- 3. We 're not in a sweatshop here .
- 4. The premises are small , but this is no sweatshop .
- 5. But they said the notion of politico as a journalistic sweatshop is pure myth .