Sweatshop is an English word with synonyms like factory or mill. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sweatshop meaning
A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.
Synonyms of Sweatshop
Using Sweatshop
- The main meaning on this page is: A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.
- Useful related words include: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory.
- In the example corpus, sweatshop often appears in combinations such as: the sweatshop, in sweatshop.
Context around Sweatshop
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sweatshop
- In this selection, "sweatshop" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 19.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fact, garment, child, couture, labor and kitchens stand out and add context to how "sweatshop" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a garment sweatshop that they and as a sweatshop worker dreaming. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sweatshop" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sweatshop
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fresh eggs — not those sweatshop eggs. (6 words)
His older brother worked in a sweatshop assembling shirts. (9 words)
Brands like Nike had faced boycotts over child sweatshop labor. (10 words)
Warren will tie her New York City speech to the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory where a fire killed 146 people, mostly female immigrants, in 1911 because of unsafe sweatshop working conditions. (33 words)
It also probably seems logical that marooned, jobless foreign students should be able to "draw on their savings" whilst the sweatshop kitchens that employ them are closed due to the virus. (31 words)
It is against any notion of humanity to restrict those who have either fled political persecution, or life as a sweatshop worker dreaming of a better wage. (27 words)
Ah, Sherlock, but is what you see truly just a sweatshop for the oil, gas and finance crowd? (18 words)
Who can honestly claim they don’t own a single item of clothing that hasn’t been made in a sweatshop? (21 words)
Example sentences (14)
In fact, sweatshop couture very efficiently characterizes the movie as a whole.
Phitsamai Baothong outside the apartment complex used as a garment sweatshop that they were held captive in 28 years ago as slave laborers.
Ah, Sherlock, but is what you see truly just a sweatshop for the oil, gas and finance crowd?
Brands like Nike had faced boycotts over child sweatshop labor.
According to the Department of Labor, the definition of a sweatshop is a factory that violates two or more U.S. labor laws.
It also probably seems logical that marooned, jobless foreign students should be able to "draw on their savings" whilst the sweatshop kitchens that employ them are closed due to the virus.
Fresh eggs — not those sweatshop eggs.
The caretaker government axed the departure center signs and cancelled plans to pay new asylum-seekers sweatshop wages.
Warren will tie her New York City speech to the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory where a fire killed 146 people, mostly female immigrants, in 1911 because of unsafe sweatshop working conditions.
Willner and Stratton make the kits in her dining room, which she jokes looks like a sweatshop, with fabric scraps everywhere.
It is against any notion of humanity to restrict those who have either fled political persecution, or life as a sweatshop worker dreaming of a better wage.
Who can honestly claim they don’t own a single item of clothing that hasn’t been made in a sweatshop?
His older brother worked in a sweatshop assembling shirts.
The sweatshop owners were thought to have unfair bargaining power over their employees, and a minimum wage was proposed as a means to make them pay fairly.
Common combinations with sweatshop
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the sweatshop 2×
- in sweatshop 2×