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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of dress-down1

First recorded in 1950–55
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He repeated the words “I’m comin'” at least a dozen times, and had players chant words such as “smart!” “tough!” and “disciplined!” after the dress-down.

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That, in fact, in Mr. Bankman-Fried’s overwhelming embrace of the dress-down mystique — one colleague, Andy Croghan, told The New York Times, “Sam and I would intentionally not wear pants to meetings” — he actually missed the point, which was that it is the details and what you don’t see that matters.

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

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“A Hawaiian shirt for dress-down Fridays.”

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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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