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51sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops. [1850 55] * * * …
52Sweating sickness — An often fatal illness, named from one of its symptoms; probably a true influenza. Between 1315 and 1322 there was a series of epidemics accompanied by bad harvests and starvation. At the same time there were outbreaks of murrain. The result was… …
53Sweating's Passage — At the northern end of Moor Lane, running east and west, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746 Boyle, 1799). The site of the western portion is now occupied by Butler Street (q.v.). There is a view of the old houses in the Passage in …
54SWEATING SICKNESS — an epidemic of extraordinary malignity which swept over Europe, and especially England, in the 15th and 16th centuries, attacking with equal virulence all classes and all ages, and carrying off enormous numbers of people; was characterised by… …
55SWEATING SYSTEM — a term which began to be used about 1848 to describe an iniquitous system of sub contracting in the tailoring trade. Orders from master tailors were undertaken by sub contractors, who themselves farmed the work out to needy workers, who made… …
56sweating system — /ˈswɛtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/ (say sweting .sistuhm) noun the practice of employing workers in sweatshops …
57sweating house — noun : sweathouse …
58sweating iron — noun : sweat scraper …
59sweating plant — noun : boneset 1 …
60sweating-house — …