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sweat equity

sweat equity noun: an investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of the business or residence.

Noun

sweat equity (countable and uncountable, plural sweat equities)

  1. (idiomatic) An investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of the business or residence.
    • My wife and I have put a lot of sweat equity into our home: I did the renovations and she did the redecorating.
    • Mr. TALLE: His time and his wife's time in that article is called the "sweat equity".
      Mr. GRIGGS: Look at the fun they had doing it.1949, U.S. House of Representatives, Housing amendments of 1949: Hearing before the Committee on Banking and Currency, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, page 203

sweat equity meaning in Tamil and Bengali

sweat equity in Tamil

பணியாளர் பங்குமுதல்

sweat equity in Bengali

শ্রমের একটি বিনিয়োগ

Forms of sweat equity

pluralsweat equities

Questions about sweat equity

What does sweat equity mean?
Sweat equity means an investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of the business or residence.
What is sweat equity in Tamil?
Sweat equity in Tamil is பணியாளர் பங்குமுதல். See Sweat equity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sweat equity?
Sweat equity is a noun.
What is the plural of sweat equity?
The plural of sweat equity is sweat equities.

Words near sweat equity in the dictionary

  1. sweat boxes
  2. sweat bricks
  3. sweat buckets
  4. sweat bullets
  5. sweat equities
  6. sweat equity
  7. sweat gland
  8. sweat glands
  9. sweat hole
  10. sweat holes
  11. sweat it out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweat equity (page history and authors); sweat equity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sweat equity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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