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WORKWEAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does workwear mean?
• WORKWEAR (noun)
The noun WORKWEAR has 1 sense:
1. heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work
Familiarity information: WORKWEAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("workwear" is a kind of...):
apparel; clothes; dress; wearing apparel (clothing in general)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "workwear"):
blue jeans; denim; jeans ((used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear)
work-shirt (heavy-duty shirts worn for manual or physical work)
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