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sweatshop

/swet-shop/US // ˈswɛtˌʃɒp //UK // (ˈswɛtˌʃɒp) //

血汗工厂,血拼,汗蒸,汗水

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a shop, small factory, or other workplace employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.

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Examples

  • When I spoke to her last year, she had compared Coupang’s warehouses to the infamous sweatshops in 1970s South Korea.

  • Following the tragedy, American Apparel CEO Dov Charney spoke out against overseas, sweatshop production.

  • The dreary couch gag depicts a hellish sweatshop dedicated to manufacturing Simpsons merchandise.

  • A man works in a sweatshop, and has only a little time for self-improvement, and will I tell him what books he ought to read?

  • The sweatshop, child-labor, excessive hours for women, were attacked with considerable effect.

  • After a disheartening period of working in the sweatshop he saw an opportunity to start in business for himself.

  • Says his father's dead and mother earns seventeen a week in a sweatshop and sends him to school.

  • As long as women buy the cheap kind made at the sacrifice of human life, this sweatshop system will continue.