sweatshop Syllabification: (sweat·shop)Pronunciation: /ˈswetˌSHäp/Translate sweatshop | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of sweatshop noun a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. sweatshop in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of sweatshop in the British & World English dictionary