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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco.
Australia Post has been accused of endangering staff with "sweatbox" uniforms and restricting earlier starts to save money.
They shoved me in the back of a police van and started driving to the cop shop. I was sitting in the sweatbox, wondering how the Dibble had got onto me so quickly, when I heard a voice from another section of the van say, 'Are you P from Macclesfield?'
[…] she was finally hustled into a sweatbox, as prisoners and prison staff called it, and was off to meet her new home for the foreseeable future.
In the summer of 1945, one young boy died of heart failure while locked in a sweatbox, a popular corrective at that time.
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Use sweatbox when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sweatbox means Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Australia Post has been accused of endangering staff with "sweatbox" uniforms and restricting earlier starts to save money.
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