sweatee
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sweatee (plural sweatees)
- (historical) A subcontractor doing piece work in the tailoring trade.
- Coordinate term: sweater
- 1894, New York (State) Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, Annual Report (volumes 7-8, page 158)
- 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.