sweated

English

Verb

sweated

1. simple past and past participle of sweat

Adjective

sweated (comparative more sweated, superlative most sweated)

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

     “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, 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 […]