sweated

sweated

English

Verb

sweated

1. simple past tense and past participle of sweat

Adjective

sweated (comparative more sweated, superlative most sweated)

1. Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     “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 […]