Sweat-shop


noun
1.
a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
noun
1.
a workshop where employees work long hours under bad conditions for low wages

sweatshop definition

A small factory or shop in which employees are poorly paid and work under adverse conditions. Sweatshops were especially common in the garment industry during the early twentieth century.
sweat something out of someone

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