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workwear

workwear

1 3.7
Clothes that are strong and useful for physical jobs like construction
  • noun
  • /ˈwɜrkˌwɛr/
translation icon : ropa de trabajo
  • Many companies provide high-quality workwear to ensure their employees are safe and comfortable while working.
  • workwear brand

What I also think is that what we shouldn't be doing is being charged hundreds for what is basically workwear.

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Examples

  • Faustian, a durable fabric used for workwear in Genoa, and indigo dyed fabric from Denim France.

  • The construction workers wore durable workwear to protect themselves on the job site.

  • Many businesses that wear embroidered workwear in their marketplace gain more business, and workers will give more production.

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  • Embroidered workwear adds a great deal to any workshop; adding these to your workers really gives them great pride.

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  • Embroidered workwear adds a great deal to any workshop.

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  • But anyways, we were talking about the stuff Bub wears to work and what is a guy's, like, best look for workwear, office wear.

  • So in the studio we took a day and played around with concepts for Jacket's workwear in general, and I think we came up with a pretty cool idea.

  • What is embroidered workwear, you may well ask. Well, it is clothing displaying your logo or text in the workplace.

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  • Ironclad Performance Wear is America's leading manufacturer of task-specific work gloves and innovative workwear.

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  • Creating the category of task-specific work gloves in 1998, Ironclad continues to be the leader in impossibly tough workwear and gloves to keep safe the bodies and hands that build this country every day.

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Synonyms

work clothes
vsworkwear
11 1.6

Clothes you wear for hard, dirty jobs that protect you and last a long time

is the general term stressing durability and function for physical labor
work-clothing
vsworkwear
3.0

Clothes people wear to protect them during physical work

is the same in meaning but written with a hyphen
work clothing
vsworkwear
2.6

Clothes you wear for hard jobs that protect you and are strong

is the same meaning but often written as one word
work-clothes
vsworkwear
2.8

Clothes you wear to do physical work that are strong and protect you

is neutral about style, focusing on durability and function

Antonyms

Comfortable casual clothes worn when relaxing or during free time

How Protective

biohazard suit
  • Specialized
1 6.5
workwear
1 3.7
work clothes
11 1.6
uniform
1.7

Surface Forms

workwear singular
workwears plural

Morphology

workwear = work + wear (transparent) = work + wear

The meaning is directly the combination of 'work' + 'wear' meaning clothing for work, a clear compound.

Etymology

Workwear is made from two simple words: work ('doing a job') and wear ('clothes'), like sportswear or nightwear. So workwear literally means the clothes you wear for work, which is why it refers to strong, practical clothing for physical jobs.