Meaning

A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise..

Definitions by Sense

1. A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
2. (chiefly US) A similar garment worn for warmth.
3. One who sweats (produces sweat).
4. One who or that which causes to sweat.
5. A diaphoretic remedy.
6. (historical) An exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.
7. (archaic) One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
8. (UK, obsolete) A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded passers-by with his sword-point.

Example Sentences

We could slip away / Wouldn't that be better? / Me with nothing to say / And you in your autumn sweater

The cardiologist who administered Alex's exercise stress test on August 21 observed during that test that Alex was a profuse sweater.

We learn of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn it from inspectors, we learn it from doctors, we learn it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn it from the children; we never learn it from the victims.

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.

Among them were the "sweaters" who formed a circle round their prisoner and pricked him with their swords until he sank exhausted to the ground, […]

Word Forms

• sweaters
• sweatering
• sweatered

Synonyms for sweater

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When Should You Use Sweater?

Use sweater when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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