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wardrobed

wardrobed is the simple past and past participle of wardrobe.

Meaning of wardrobe

Verb

wardrobe (third-person singular simple present wardrobes, present participle wardrobing, simple past and past participle wardrobed)

  1. (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department; to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
    • […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing.1954 December 11, Billboard, page 20
  2. To order clothing online and return it for a refund after having worn it.
    • Wardrobing, the act of buying a nice piece of clothing, wearing it once, and returning it, is an $8.8 billion problem for the retail industry.2015, Adam Toporek, Be Your Customer's Hero, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 195
  3. To order multiple sizes of the same clothing online and return all but the one that fits best.
    • Wardrobing is where people will order the same thing in three different sizes to see which one fits and then they return the other two, not realizing that those other two most of the time don’t go back on that retailer’s shelves.2022 January 28, Katie Tarasov, “What really happens to Amazon returns”, in CNBC

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Questions about wardrobed

What is wardrobed the simple past and past participle of?
Wardrobed is the simple past and past participle of wardrobe.

Words near wardrobed in the dictionary

  1. wardrobe malfunctioner
  2. wardrobe malfunctioners
  3. wardrobe malfunctions
  4. wardrobe mistress
  5. wardrobe mistresses
  6. wardrobed
  7. wardrobeful
  8. wardrobefuls
  9. wardrobeless
  10. wardrobelike
  11. wardrober

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