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sweating system

noun

  1. the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sweating system1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

Were people in general not willing accomplices, there would be no sweating system, no unfair competition.

Also domestic industry frequently implies the so-called sweating system.

One word must be said in this connection about the sweating system and its relation to trade unions.

One of the speakers had alluded to the evil part in the sweating system which is played by the highly paid "speeders."

The sweating system is one of the iniquities of commercial greed, and the helpless foreigner of certain classes is its victim.

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