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say it: SWET-shahp
sweatshop is a noun meaning "factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry". It is pronounced /ˈswɛtˌʃɑp/ — SWET-shahp. It carries one recorded sense.
factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sweatshop come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.