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dress down

Phrasal Verb with dress
 
 
/dres/ verb

Definition

WORKPLACE to wear more informal clothes to work than you usually do: Staff have been told that they can dress down on Fridays.
(Definition of dress down from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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