sweated

[ swet-id ]

adjective

1. made by underpaid workers.
2. underpaid and overworked.
3. having poor working conditions.

sweated

/ ˈswɛtɪd /

adjective

1. made by exploited labour

   sweated goods

2. (of workers, etc) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay

Other Words From

• un·sweated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of sweated¹

1645–55 for earlier sense “saturated with sweat”; 1880–85 sweated fordef 2; sweat + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Twenty years later, viewers sweated it out for four days before the networks put 270 electoral votes in President Biden’s column on Nov. 7, 2020.

From Los Angeles Times

O’Malley saw it as an appealing location to build a baseball stadium, worked a sweetheart deal with the city and sweated out a referendum on the June 3, 1958, ballot that narrowly passed.

From Los Angeles Times

More than 1,500 classes later, the venture capitalist, who now lives in Pasadena, pays about $500 a month for the boutique fitness chain’s top-level membership and has sweated it out at Barry’s around the world: all seven L.A.-area locations as well as studios in the Bay Area, San Diego, Austin, New York, Miami, Chicago, Boston, the United Kingdom, Dubai and Abu Dhabi — “I went there for 48 hours for a business meeting and I was like, ‘I want to get my Barry’s in,’” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

More than 1,500 classes later, the venture capitalist, who now lives in Pasadena, pays about $500 a month for the boutique fitness chain’s top-level membership and has sweated it out at Barry’s around the world: all seven L.A.-area locations as well as studios in the Bay Area, San Diego, Austin, New York, Miami, Chicago, Boston, the United Kingdom, Dubai and Abu Dhabi — “I went there for 48 hours for a business meeting and I was like, ‘I want to get my Barry’s in,’” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

It comes as no surprise to anyone who sweated through it: 2023 was the hottest year in human history.

From Science Magazine