Meaning

1 senses
  1. A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.

    Sweatshop, Ausbeutungsbetrieb

    потого́нкаpotogónka, потогонное произво́дствоpotogonnoje proizvódstvo, галераgalera

    factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Don't buy products made in sweatshops.

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  2. Why do you buy things made in sweatshops?

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  3. Mary only buys sweatshop-free clothing.

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  4. I should quit this sweatshop job and move to a good company.

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  5. Name one example of capitalism working without slavery, prison labor, or sweatshops.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
cheap factory:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
cheap factory:

Origin

From sweat (“to extract money, labour, etc.”, verb) + shop.

From sweat (“to extract money, labour, etc.”, verb) + shop.

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Forms

plural: sweatshops

Synonyms

1 synonyms
sweat factory

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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