sweaters

Noun

sweater (plural sweaters)

1. A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.

   Synonyms:

   sweatshirt

2. (US) A similar garment worn for warmth.
   • We could slip away / Wouldn't that be better? / Me with nothing to say / And you in your autumn sweater1997, “Autumn Sweater”, in I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, performed by Yo La Tengo

   Synonyms:

   jumper, pullover, jersey, cardigan, wooly

3. One who sweats (produces sweat).
   • The cardiologist who administered Alex's exercise stress test on August 21 observed during that test that Alex was a profuse sweater.2007, John T. James, A Sea of Broken Hearts: Patient Rights in a Dangerous Profit-Driven Health Care System, →ISBN, page 29

   Synonyms:

   perspirer

4. One who or that which causes to sweat.
   • We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.1906, Chesterton, Charles Dickens, chapter 3
5. A diaphoretic remedy.
6. (historical) An exploitative middleman who subcontracted 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)

   Synonyms:

   exploiter

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