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dress-down

[ dres-doun ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or being a policy that allows employees to dress less formally than usual:

    dress-down days during the summer.



dress down

verb

  1. informal.
    tr to reprimand severely or scold (a person)
  2. intr to dress in a casual or informal manner, esp at work
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of dress-down1

First recorded in 1950鈥55
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That, in fact, in Mr. Bankman-Fried鈥檚 overwhelming embrace of the dress-down mystique 鈥 one colleague, Andy Croghan, told The New York Times, 鈥淪am and I would intentionally not wear pants to meetings鈥 鈥 he actually missed the point, which was that it is the details and what you don鈥檛 see that matters.

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Simultaneously, the need to embellish one鈥檚 individuality should be acknowledged with dress-down days at various times throughout the school year.

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鈥淎 Hawaiian shirt for dress-down Fridays.鈥

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Pointedly, and unlike his fellow tech entrepreneurs who have enshrined the dress-down uniform in the mythology of their sector and equated it with a life of the mind, Bezos has a facility for dressing up.

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