noun
sweatshop
SWEHT-shop
noun
1
A factory or workshop where employees work long hours for low pay in poor or unsafe conditions.
"The report exposed sweatshop conditions in the overseas clothing factory."
"Consumers are increasingly asking whether their clothes were made in a sweatshop."
How to Use Sweatshop
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA workplace known for exploiting workers with poor conditions and unfairly low wages.
Common pairings
sweatshop labor
sweatshop conditions
run a sweatshop
Word Forms
sweatshops plural
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Etymology
From "sweat" (in the sense of extracting labor from someone unfairly) plus "shop."