trouser
UK/ˈtɹaʊzə/US/ˈtɹaʊzɚ/
trouser noun: of or relating to trousers.
Noun
trouser (plural trousers)
Verb
trouser (third-person singular simple present trousers, present participle trousering, simple past and past participle trousered)
- To put (money) into one's trouser pocket; to pocket.
- To secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use.
- Your aunt told him to pack Upjohn's bags, and the first thing he saw when he smacked into it was the speech. He trousered it and brought it along to me.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
- Barr, 34, trousered the money from the pub in Lugton, Ayrshire, between January 2016 and February 2018.2021 September 7, “Greedy pub worker’s assets targeted after he’s convicted of £40,000 embezzlement: Graham Barr trousered over £35,000 while working at the Canny Man in Lugton”, in Daily Record
- To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own); to pocket.
- Politicians know how to look after themselves. Derry Irvine, Blair’s old boss, trousered a pension fund worth £2.3 million after just five years as Lord Chancellor - all courtesy of the tax payer.2010, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn’s Britain, page 348
- Andy Prendergast, national secretary of the GMB union, said: “To see the boss of Shell trouser more than £6million while bills are crippling families and countries scrabble around trying to ditch Russian gas is abhorrent.2022 March 10, “Shell boss earns £6.3million in a year as households and motorists face cost of living crisis”, in Mirror
trouser meaning in Tamil and Urdu
trouser in Tamil
- கால்சட்டை, காற்சட்டை, கால்சட்டைகள்
trouser in Urdu
- پاجامہ
Examples of trouser in a sentence
- The founder and boss of CMC Markets is set to trouser £20million via the company’s dividend payments, even as the group’s profits and revenue fall.2022 June 9, “CMC Market boss and House of Lords member Peter Cruddas set for bumper dividend as trading platform’s profits and revenue...
- The whopping sum will now be up for grabs on Tuesday when punters will have another chance to trouser the lifechanging amount.2022 July 17, “LUCKY NUMBERS Euromillions - £191million jackpot rolls over AGAIN with whopping cash prize up for grabs on Tuesday”, in The...
- As an example, in the final three months of 2022 (usually a fallow period for airlines), Ryanair trousered a comfortable £222 million in profits - essentially £2m per day.2023 April 19, Christian Wolmar, “We need a cross-party transport policy that supports net zero”, in RAIL, number 981, page 34:
Forms of trouser
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | trousers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | trousers |
| present participle | trousering |
| past participle | trousered |
| past | trousered |
Origin of trouser
Back-formation from trousers.
Words formed from trouser
- betrousered
- detrouser
- in the trouser department
- one-eyed trouser snake
- trouser cough
- trouser department
- trouserdom
- trousered
- trousered class
- trouserette
- trouserettes
- trouserian
- trousering
- trouser leg
- trouserless
- trouserlessness
- trouserlike
- trouser monkey
- trouser pants
- trouser pocket
- trouser press
- trouser role
- trouser snake
- trouser suit
- trouser tent
- untrousered
Phrases with trouser
Words that rhyme with trouser
Questions about trouser
- What does trouser mean?
- Trouser means of or relating to trousers.
- What is trouser in Tamil?
- Trouser in Tamil is கால்சட்டை, காற்சட்டை, கால்சட்டைகள். See Trouser meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use trouser in a sentence?
- The founder and boss of CMC Markets is set to trouser £20million via the company’s dividend payments, even as the group’s profits and revenue fall.
- What part of speech is trouser?
- Trouser can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce trouser?
- Trouser is pronounced /ˈtɹaʊzə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of trouser?
- The plural of trouser is trousers.
Words near trouser in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: trouser (page history and authors); trouser (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trouser (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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