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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 workplay

  Familiarity information: WORKWEAR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WORKWEAR (noun)


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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