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Definition of Sweatboxes
1. sweatbox [n] - See also: sweatbox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweatboxes
Literary usage of Sweatboxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"... but which the clerks have dubbed " visitors' sweatboxes." He put both hands
on my shoulders and he yelled—fairly yelled: " Say that again! ..."
2. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"... but which the clerks have dubbed " visitors' sweatboxes." He put both hands
on my shoulders and he yelled—fairly yelled: " Say that again! ..."
3. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"... has no bonds " we were in one of the number of 8 x 12 glass- sided pens he
calls waiting-rooms, but which the clerks have dubbed " visitors' sweatboxes. ..."
4. Raw Products of the World by Ralph Davol (1922)
"There are various methods of curing but the object in all is to "sweat" the fruit
numerous times by steaming or in sweatboxes, in order to drive out the ..."
5. Gulf War Syndrome: To Examine New Studies Suggesting Links Between Gulf by United States, Congress, House (1997)
"... there are five charlatans out there who are putting people in sweatboxes and
doing all kind of bizarre things, I mean bizarre things, with no hint of an ..."
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