"power dressing" meaning in English

See power dressing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} power dressing (uncountable)
  1. A conservative style of business dress that gives an impression of confidence and efficiency and was used especially by women in the 1970s and 1980s to succeed in a male-dominated business world. Wikipedia link: power dressing Tags: uncountable Related terms: power dresser Translations (style): voimapukeutuminen (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-power_dressing-en-noun-3jibfNAu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for power dressing meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "power dressing (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A conservative style of business dress that gives an impression of confidence and efficiency and was used especially by women in the 1970s and 1980s to succeed in a male-dominated business world."
      ],
      "id": "en-power_dressing-en-noun-3jibfNAu",
      "links": [
        [
          "conservative",
          "conservative"
        ],
        [
          "style",
          "style"
        ],
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "dress",
          "dress"
        ],
        [
          "impression",
          "impression"
        ],
        [
          "confidence",
          "confidence"
        ],
        [
          "efficiency",
          "efficiency"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "power dresser"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "style",
          "word": "voimapukeutuminen"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "power dressing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "power dressing"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "power dressing (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "power dresser"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A conservative style of business dress that gives an impression of confidence and efficiency and was used especially by women in the 1970s and 1980s to succeed in a male-dominated business world."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conservative",
          "conservative"
        ],
        [
          "style",
          "style"
        ],
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "dress",
          "dress"
        ],
        [
          "impression",
          "impression"
        ],
        [
          "confidence",
          "confidence"
        ],
        [
          "efficiency",
          "efficiency"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "power dressing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "style",
      "word": "voimapukeutuminen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "power dressing"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.