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sweatshop

sweats·hop

UK/ˈswɛtˌʃɒp/ US/ˈswɛtˌʃɑp/ uncommon

noun

1.

factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry

Origin

From sweat (“to extract money, labour, etc.”, verb) + shop.

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