Sweatshop definition

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sweatshops
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A shop or factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under poor conditions.
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A shop, factory, etc. where employees work long hours at low wages under poor working conditions.
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A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.
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Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of sweatshop - sweat-shop

Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
sweatshop
Plural:
sweatshops

Sweatshop Sentence Examples

  • Fair trade practices do not allow the use of child labor, sweatshop type environments, or slave labor in foreign nations.

  • This week's writer, Robin Mukherjee, draws his main plot from the sensitive issue of child labor in an Asian sweatshop.

  • Those in the home sweatshop must work cheaper than those in the factory sweatshops.

  • We offer an alternative to mass produced, chemically infused, and sweatshop labor products.

  • You can go on a roving picket, or tour of shame of shops that sell goods made by sweatshop labor.

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