sweated labour
1sweated labour — noun Hard work obtained by exploitation • • • Main Entry: ↑sweat * * * sweated labour UK [ˌswetɪd ˈleɪbə(r)] US [ˌswetəd ˈleɪbər] noun [uncountable] hard work that people are paid very little for, or the people who do this type of work Thesaurus …
2sweated labour — ➔ labour * * * sweated labour UK US noun [U] UK DISAPPROVING (US sweat labor) WORKPLACE, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ► people who work for long hours and very low pay in an unhealthy situation: »An increasing number of consumers today want to know that …
3sweated labour — BrE sweated labor AmE n [U] 1.) hard work done for very low wages, especially in a factory 2.) the people who do this work …
4sweated labour — BrE sweated labor AmE noun (U) 1 hard work done for very low wages, especially in a factory 2 the people who do this work …
5sweated labour — UK [ˌswetɪd ˈleɪbə(r)] / US [ˌswetəd ˈleɪbər] noun [uncountable] hard work that people are paid very little for, or the people who do this type of work …
6sweated labour — /swɛtəd ˈleɪbə/ (say swetuhd laybuh) noun 1. work which is required to be sustained for long hours at low pay. 2. a work force subjected to such exploitative work practices …
7labour — la‧bour [ˈleɪbə ǁ ər] , labor noun [uncountable] 1. work involving a lot of physical or mental effort: • The garage charges £65 an hour for labour. • those involved in repetitive, unskilled manual labour (= work that involves using your …
8sweated — adjective of or denoting manual workers employed for long hours and under poor conditions: sweated labour …
9sweated — /ˈswɛtəd / (say swetuhd) adjective 1. made by underpaid workers. 2. underpaid and overworked: *The pay was a halfpenny a card, but it was not such sweated labour as it sounds. –criena rohan, 1963. 3. having poor working conditions …
10labor, labour — I n. work 1) to do, perform labor, labour 2) manual, physical; menial; painstaking; productive; sweated (BE), sweatshop; skilled; unskilled labor, labour 3) a division of labor, labour 4) (misc.) (a) division of labor, labour; a labor, labour of… …
