Word.ws English Dictionary

workwear

Syllables: work·wearUK/ˈwɜːkwɛə//ˈwɝkwɛɹ/

workwear noun: clothes designed to be worn while working, especially in a physically demanding job.

Noun

workwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothes designed to be worn while working, especially in a physically demanding job.

Origin of workwear

From work + -wear.

Questions about workwear

What does workwear mean?
Workwear means clothes designed to be worn while working, especially in a physically demanding job.
What part of speech is workwear?
Workwear is a noun.
How do you pronounce workwear?
Workwear is pronounced /ˈwɝkwɛɹ/ (US).

Words near workwear in the dictionary

  1. Worku
  2. workup
  3. workups
  4. Workus
  5. workways
  6. workwear
  7. workweek
  8. workweeks
  9. workwise
  10. workwoman
  11. workwomanlike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: workwear (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-workwear.wav.

Cite this entry: “workwear.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/workwear. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.