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单词 sweatshop
释义
sweatshop
noun[C]
disapproving
uk
/ˈswet.ʃɒp/us
/ˈswet.ʃɑːp/
asmallfactorywhereworkersarepaidvery little andworkmanyhoursin verybadconditions:
血汗工厂
sweatshopconditions血汗工厂的工作条件
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Treating people or animals badly
(Definition ofsweatshopfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

sweatshop| American Dictionary

sweatshop
noun[C]
us
/ˈswetˌʃɑp/
asmallfactorywhereworkersarepaidvery little andworkmanyhoursunderbadconditions
(Definition ofsweatshopfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

sweatshop| Business English

sweatshop
noun[C]
WORKPLACE,SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYdisapproving
uk
/ˈswetʃɒp/us
aplacewherepeopleworkforlonghoursand verylowpayin anunhealthysituation:
sweatshop conditions/products/workersThereportclaimsmanytoycompaniesonlyworryabout sweatshopconditionsduringperiodsofbadpublicity.
(Definition ofsweatshopfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsweatshop

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Creating this avenue for negotiation, however, putsweatshopworkers in a vulnerable position.
From theCambridge English Corpus
To ensure that small sweatshops with their appalling conditions were squeezed out of business the union co-operated with owners of larger factories offering better conditions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The government claimed that it was concerned that such settlements should not become sweatshops.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In a globalizing world, the sweatshops of developing countries are not only used to manufacture commodities such as shoes and clothes but also to test new drugs.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Decent employers do not need to be undercut by cowboys and sweatshops seeking competitive advantage.
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That is £120 per week from every taxpayer to subsidise sweatshops and miserable poverty pay.
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We shall staunch the flow of subsidy from the taxpayer to thesweatshopowner.
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Millions of children under the age of 12 work in sweatshops in ever-expanding cities to satisfy the world demand for cheap consumer goods.
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Perhaps he will tell us whether that is "sweatshop" investment.
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If they devoted a disproportionate amount of time to so-called sweatshops, which is probably the wrong designation, other important areas would be neglected.
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It is a problem that affects, above all, textile industries, as indeed the problem of sweatshops has throughout the centuries and many lands.
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If we are to compete internationally as a nation we will not do so by payingsweatshopwages.
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Their objective seems to be simply a penny-pinching, cost-cuttingsweatshopeconomy.
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It is no longer a matter of working in asweatshopor starving.
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That practice is growing in my constituency in the new appalling low-paying sweatshops that are springing up in the west midlands.
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