sweated

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of sweat

comparative more sweated · superlative most sweated

1. Characterized by sweatshop conditions.

   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 […]

   1920, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy, Part III

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   “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.”

   1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC