Usually means: Exploitative, low-wage, poor-condition factory.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word sweatshop:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweatshop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sweatshop: Merriam-Webster
  3. sweatshop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sweatshop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sweatshop: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sweatshop: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sweatshop, sweatshop: Wordnik
  8. sweatshop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sweatshop: Wiktionary
  10. sweatshop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sweatshop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sweatshop: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sweatshop: Dictionary.com
  14. sweatshop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sweatshop (disambiguation), Sweatshop (film), Sweatshop (retailer), Sweatshop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. sweatshop: Rhymezone
  17. sweatshop: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sweatshop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. sweatshop: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Sweatshop: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweatshop: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.

Similar:
slave camp, workhouse, workplace, workshop, sweatbox, shop, poor farm, workyard, factory, poorhouse, more...

Opposite:
fair trade

Adjectives:
electronic, anti, global, american, small, runaway, typical, modern, century, local, old



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Similar:
slave camp, workhouse, workplace, workshop, sweatbox, shop, poor farm, workyard, factory, poorhouse, more...

Opposite:
fair trade

Adjectives:
electronic, anti, global, american, small, runaway, typical, modern, century, local, old



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