sweat equity
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6.7
- noun
- /swɛt ˈɛkwɪti/
- Jargon
:
capital de trabajo
- Grassroots initiatives and the sweat equity by association members are the keys to resolving the challenges.
- lots of sweat equity
- put in sweat equity
- hours of sweat equity
I did it for what's called the sweat equity.
- I did it for what's called the sweat equity.
- And we arranged for a payback to her as a personal loan combination of sweat equity and and then cash loan.
- Oh yeah, it's like we have Jake, we have this entire team is built off of sweat equity.
- Workers, workers are are have helped bake the pie of prosperity, but their sweat equity hasn't translated into financial equity for them.
- And most everything that we did was based on just what we called sweat equity.
- Heath Thomas asked, Hey Tom, what's the best way to build a listing pipeline on sweat equity?
Examples
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The owner was doing sweat equity in order to stretch the grant money to its limit.
Academic text (1994) -
We found this truck in Washington State, and the previous owner had spent thousands of dollars and hours of sweat equity bringing this truck to its current condition.
Blog text (6) -
People who buy into a project with sweat equity are committed to making it work.
Academic text (2011) -
It's a great example of people putting in some sweat equity to improve their neighborhood.
Blog text (3) -
The settlers of the area continued to invest "sweat equity" in their houses long after the original structures had been built.
Academic text (1991) -
We had a bunch of volunteers and people were willing to put sweat equity in and they just got started and tried to make it work.
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Walsh believes that this is important because the students appreciate the "sweat equity" behind the money they are investing and see the importance of achieving a return.
Academic text (2003) -
At South, the athletic department has gotten creative with ways to help students pay athletic fees—by using sweat equity.
Blog text (6) -
It represents the culmination of nearly four years of sweat equity overcoming hurdles, roadblocks, and naysayers.
Blog text (26) -
Many new homeowners invest their time and energy as sweat equity to improve their houses.
Synonyms
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4.2
A share in a business or project
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5.4
The value of what you own in a house or company after you pay off debts
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'ownership or value earned by working rather than investing money' is directly derivable from combining 'sweat' (effort/work) with 'equity' (ownership stake). This compositional metaphor (work producing an ownership stake) follows straightforward logic and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents, even if the phrase appears in a business context.
Etymology
Sweat equity comes from the picture of hard work: your sweat makes the equity, or the 'value' and 'ownership', in a house or business grow. So, it means the 'value' you earn by working on something yourself rather than by paying money.