sweatshop

[US]/'swetʃɒp/
[UK]/'swɛtʃɑp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a place where employees are subjected to harsh working conditions and low wages
Word Forms

Real-world Examples

Maria Hernandez worked in an illegal, clandestine sweatshop before the earthquake and is now press chief for the union.

Source: Listen to this 3 Advanced English Listening

And they don't love me because I'm a synthetic monokini made in a factory by a sweatshop baby.

Source: "Reconstructing a Lady" Original Soundtrack

A high proportion will be from ethnic minorities, many being employed illegally at low wage levels and under sweatshop conditions.

Source: Recite for the King Volume 4 (All 60 lessons)

Now you should be thinking, like, sweatshops, New York City.

Source: Radio Laboratory

If they're working in a sweatshop, that is.

Source: South Park Season 01

Many of these children went out to work in  sweatshops and other unregulated workplaces.

Source: Charming history

Sounds very fair. the sweatshops could learn a thing or two.

Source: Gossip Girl Season 1

Sounds like a sweatshop, Dad. -No, I'll give her a little fan.

Source: Everybody Loves Raymond Season 2

Among those hardest hit by the quake were women garment workers, who worked in sweatshops concentrated in the heart of Mexico City.

Source: Listen to this 3 Advanced English Listening

Do you realize, by owning a 3D printer, we are reclaiming the manufacturing process and taking jobs back from sweatshops in China?

Source: The Big Bang Theory Season 6

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