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For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously.
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Meaning of "dress down" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRESS DOWN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRESS DOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dress down is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dress down in English.

WHAT DOES DRESS DOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Casual Friday

Casual Friday is an American and Canadian trend which has spread to other parts of the world, wherein some offices may celebrate a semi-reprieve from the constrictions of a formal dress code. Whereas, during the rest of the week, business shirts, suits, ties, trousers, and dress shoes would be the norm, on Casual Friday workers might be allowed to wear more casual dress. Some companies might allow jeans, casual blouses or T-shirts, hoodies, track jackets, and sneakers/running shoes or even stocking feet, but others require business casual or smart casual dress. Some offices allow a themed dress down day. On this day, even managers in such workplaces are allowed to dress down. The tropical roots of Casual Friday go back to at least 1947 in Hawaii, when the city of Honolulu allowed workers to wear the Aloha shirt part of the year. The term Aloha Friday dates from the 1960s, when the shirts were worn on Fridays instead of normal business attire. Casual Friday, along with dressing casually during the week, became very prevalent during the Dot-com bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s rooted in a relaxed California-based business culture.

Definition of dress down in the English dictionary

The definition of dress down in the dictionary is to reprimand severely or scold. Other definition of dress down is to dress in a casual or informal manner, esp at work.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRESS DOWN

PRESENT

Present
I dress down
you dress down
he/she/it dresses down
we dress down
you dress down
they dress down
Present continuous
I am dressing down
you are dressing down
he/she/it is dressing down
we are dressing down
you are dressing down
they are dressing down
Present perfect
I have dressed down
you have dressed down
he/she/it has dressed down
we have dressed down
you have dressed down
they have dressed down
Present perfect continuous
I have been dressing down
you have been dressing down
he/she/it has been dressing down
we have been dressing down
you have been dressing down
they have been dressing down
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dressed down
you dressed down
he/she/it dressed down
we dressed down
you dressed down
they dressed down
Past continuous
I was dressing down
you were dressing down
he/she/it was dressing down
we were dressing down
you were dressing down
they were dressing down
Past perfect
I had dressed down
you had dressed down
he/she/it had dressed down
we had dressed down
you had dressed down
they had dressed down
Past perfect continuous
I had been dressing down
you had been dressing down
he/she/it had been dressing down
we had been dressing down
you had been dressing down
they had been dressing down
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will dress down
you will dress down
he/she/it will dress down
we will dress down
you will dress down
they will dress down
Future continuous
I will be dressing down
you will be dressing down
he/she/it will be dressing down
we will be dressing down
you will be dressing down
they will be dressing down
Future perfect
I will have dressed down
you will have dressed down
he/she/it will have dressed down
we will have dressed down
you will have dressed down
they will have dressed down
Future perfect continuous
I will have been dressing down
you will have been dressing down
he/she/it will have been dressing down
we will have been dressing down
you will have been dressing down
they will have been dressing down
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would dress down
you would dress down
he/she/it would dress down
we would dress down
you would dress down
they would dress down
Conditional continuous
I would be dressing down
you would be dressing down
he/she/it would be dressing down
we would be dressing down
you would be dressing down
they would be dressing down
Conditional perfect
I would have dress down
you would have dress down
he/she/it would have dress down
we would have dress down
you would have dress down
they would have dress down
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been dressing down
you would have been dressing down
he/she/it would have been dressing down
we would have been dressing down
you would have been dressing down
they would have been dressing down
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you dress down
we let´s dress down
you dress down
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to dress down
Past participle
dressed down
Present Participle
dressing down
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRESS DOWN

dress
dress circle
dress coat
dress code
dress designer
dress form
dress length
dress parade
dress rehearsal
dress sense
dress shield
dress ship
dress shirt
dress shoes
dress suit
dress uniform
dress up
dress-down day
dress-down Friday
dressage

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRESS DOWN

back down
break down
bring the house down
cut down
down
get down
go down
hands down
hold down
lay down
put down
ride down
sit down
step down
take down
turn down
up and down
upside down
when the chips are down
wind down
write down

Synonyms and antonyms of dress down in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dress down» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRESS DOWN

Find out the translation of dress down to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dress down from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dress down» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

抢白
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desvestirse
570 millions of speakers

English

dress down
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीचे पोशाक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللباس أسفل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отругать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vestir-se
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কাপড় - চোপড়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

s´habiller simplement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

buka pakaian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dress down
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

叱りつける
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

다운 드레스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sugih
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ăn mặc xuống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உடை களைந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ड्रेस अप करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

azarlamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vestire giù
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ubrać się
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

насварити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rochie în jos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κάτω φόρεμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rok af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

klä ner
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kle ned
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dress down

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRESS DOWN»

The term «dress down» is regularly used and occupies the 73.265 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRESS DOWN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dress down» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dress down» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dress down

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4 QUOTES WITH «DRESS DOWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dress down.
1
Imelda Marcos
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
2
Matthew Rhys
Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.
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Marnie Stern
For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously.
4
Jenna Ushkowitz
My style overall is whatever is comfy, whatever I feel like wearing that day that I feel good in. I have some really classic pieces that I can dress up, dress down, wear to the movies or wear to a really nice dinner. And I love a really good leather jacket.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRESS DOWN»

Discover the use of dress down in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dress down and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Casual Power: How to Power Up Your Nonverbal Communication ...
Does your nonverbal communication limit your effectiveness? In this enlightening guidebook, Sherry Maysonave shows you precisely how to command respect, inspire trust, and project personal power when you dress down for business.
Sherry Maysonave, 1999
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Law Office Policy and Procedures Manual
5.22 Dress-Down Day EDITOR'S NOTE: Many firms provide for a dress-down day for lawyers and staff. Some firms describe acceptable dress on dress- down days as business casual. That term is defined differently by different firms. However ...
Howard I. Hatoff, Robert C. Wert, 2006
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Dictionary of Newfoundland English
1 To head, gut and split fish preparatory to any further 'curing' process; freq in phr dress down. [1583] 1940 Gilbert's Voyages & Enterprises ii, 403 [Hayes' narrative ] The Generall granted in fee farme divers parcells of land lying by the ...
George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, 1990
4
The Nonverbal Factor: Exploring the Other Side of Communication
with models showing what is and is not acceptable on dress-down days . In addition the company compiled a two-inch-thick binder packed with pictures showing what is appropriate and inappropriate for dressdown days . At other corporations ...
Donald B. Egolf, Sondra L. Chester, 2013
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
wANTONYMS dress informally, dress down. 4 she'd enjoyed dressing the tree and singing carols: decorate, adorn, ornament, trim, deck, bedeck, embellish, beautify, prettify, array, festoon, garland, rig, drape; garnish, furbish, enhance, grace, ...
Maurice Waite, 2009
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
... getup, togs, duds, glad rags, threads, Sunday best; formal apparel; archaic raiment. – phrases dress down 1 even the execs dress down on Fridays: dress informally, dress casually. 2 never dress down an employee in front of his colleagues.
‎2012
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Workplace Success: Ten Steps to Career Advancement
work. When you are well groomed it helps build your confidence and professional presence. Many companies have a “dress down” day. Personally, I don't believe in dress down days because I believe that dressing down has the potential to ...
Lenora Peters Gant, Ph.D., 2010
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What Successful Principals Do: 169 Tips for Principals
If the principal's dress is casual or sloppy, then the teachers and students will dress down from there. A princi- pal wearing a suit and tie does not make one smarter. Dressing professionally sets a mood that we are serious about our profession.
Franzy Fleck, 2013
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ABA Journal
But as the dress-down phenomenon spreads, men, too, are learning how footwear can change a look: Khakis and a polo shirt, when worn with Nikes, are strictly for weekends at home; slap on a pair of Bass Weejuns, and the same ensemble ...
10
Business English
Here are some questions to consider: ' What is acceptable to wear on dress- down days?r - Should our policy restrict body art (tattoos) and piercing? Immediately describing desired action Explains reasoning behind request and gives details ...
Mary Ellen Guffey, Carolyn Seefer, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRESS DOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dress down is used in the context of the following news items.
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The rising hemlines of our dress codes nationwide
At this juncture, I'd like to addendum to the point by stating government staff might want to slowly dress down. Many countries have let their civil ... «Malay Mail Online, Jul 15»
2
Where Are Mexicos Dead Doctors? Families Fear a Cover-Up Like …
Congressional leader Bernardo Ortega even went so far as to dress down the embattled DA on the floor of the state legislature last week, ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
3
G2000 Spring/Summer sale now on
Dress down in polo tees from $33 and informal pants from $49. Stay cool in office-ready looks with summer frocks from $49 and blouses from ... «AsiaOne, Jul 15»
4
Photographer Makes Stunning Fashion Statements With Metal …
As big fans of the bow tie and its ability to dress up or dress down a outfit for almost any occasion, we certainly had fun clicking through Barbin's ... «Chicagoist, Jul 15»
5
Pics of Vinny Mac's rules for WWE announcers leaked
This is about everything from how they should dress down to specific phrases they should avoid completely. Check out the images below and ... «Pro MMA Now, Jul 15»
6
Kourtney Kardashian's stepbrother Brody Jenner on Scott Disick …
They look fantastic with high heels but are also easy to dress down with ankle boots or sneakers. Plus when you bend down they don't reveal ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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The 'Black Magic': How to wear black and stay cool
You can dress up or dress down a floral playsuit as you like. Pair it with a cute pair of metallic shoes for the day and with ankle strap heels and ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
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On the Record / July 8, 2015
Employees at Independent Health raised $14,948 for GO Bike Buffalo through a monthlong dress down program in May. More than 560 ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
9
Workplace wardrobe malfunctions
This comment may be startling to Geico employees of Long Island, who are incentivized to dress down through a “dress down for charity” ... «Long Island Business News, Jul 15»
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Simplicity drives some CEOs to wear personal, company uniforms
He said executives who choose to dress down do it for various reasons, from being part of the culture, to personal choice based on efficiency. «The City Wire, Jul 15»

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