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sweatee

sweatee noun: a subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.

Noun

sweatee (plural sweatees)

  1. (historical) A subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.
    • If the piecework system had not existed there never would have been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say, are men who formerly belonged to our union.1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)

Forms of sweatee

pluralsweatees

Origin of sweatee

From sweat + -ee.

Questions about sweatee

What does sweatee mean?
Sweatee means a subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.
What part of speech is sweatee?
Sweatee is a noun.
What is the plural of sweatee?
The plural of sweatee is sweatees.

Words near sweatee in the dictionary

  1. sweated off
  2. sweated one's guts out
  3. sweated out
  4. sweated the small stuff
  5. sweatedst
  6. sweatee
  7. sweatees
  8. sweaten
  9. sweater
  10. sweater curse
  11. sweater dress

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