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wear two hats

wear two hats verb: to have two different roles.

Verb

wear two hats (third-person singular simple present wears two hats, present participle wearing two hats, simple past wore two hats, past participle worn two hats)

  1. (idiomatic) To have two different roles.
    • The policeman wore two hats, having an administrative role as well as patrolling the beat.
    • Many a person wears two hats in daily life: friend and coworker, student and teacher, wife and mother, husband and father.

Forms of wear two hats

third-person singular presentwears two hats
present participlewearing two hats
pastwore two hats
past participleworn two hats

Questions about wear two hats

What does wear two hats mean?
Wear two hats means to have two different roles.
What part of speech is wear two hats?
Wear two hats is a verb.
What is the past tense of wear two hats?
The past tense of wear two hats is wore two hats.

Words near wear two hats in the dictionary

  1. wear the pants
  2. wear the trousers
  3. wear thin
  4. wear through
  5. wear too many hats
  6. wear two hats
  7. wear up
  8. wear weary
  9. wear yellow stockings
  10. wearabilities
  11. wearability

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