"trouser" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɹaʊzə/ [UK], /ˈtɹaʊzɚ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-trouser.wav Forms: trousers [plural]
enPR: trouʹzər Rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ) Etymology: Back-formation from trousers. Etymology templates: {{back-formation|en|trousers}} Back-formation from trousers Head templates: {{en-noun}} trouser (plural trousers)
  1. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to trousers. Tags: attributive Translations (of or relating to trousers): housu- (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-trouser-en-noun-oDHltjYk Disambiguation of 'of or relating to trousers': 91 9
  2. (in clothing retail and fashion) A pair of trousers. Categories (topical): Clothing
    Sense id: en-trouser-en-noun-q8ycmvr7 Disambiguation of Clothing: 0 17 29 28 26 Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English back-formations: 2 35 30 17 16 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 41 32 14 13 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 0 32 32 20 17 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 0 39 29 18 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /ˈtɹaʊzə/ [UK], /ˈtɹaʊzɚ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-trouser.wav Forms: trousers [present, singular, third-person], trousering [participle, present], trousered [participle, past], trousered [past]
enPR: trouʹzər Rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ) Etymology: Back-formation from trousers. Etymology templates: {{back-formation|en|trousers}} Back-formation from trousers Head templates: {{en-verb}} trouser (third-person singular simple present trousers, present participle trousering, simple past and past participle trousered)
  1. (transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To put (money) into one's trouser pocket; to pocket. Tags: British, Ireland, informal, transitive Categories (topical): Clothing
    Sense id: en-trouser-en-verb-nV-iyLci Disambiguation of Clothing: 0 17 29 28 26 Categories (other): British English, Irish English, English back-formations, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English back-formations: 2 35 30 17 16 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 0 32 32 20 17
  2. (transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use. Tags: British, Ireland, informal, transitive Categories (topical): Clothing Translations (to secretively steal): pistää liiveihinsä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-trouser-en-verb-it21nKeu Disambiguation of Clothing: 0 17 29 28 26 Categories (other): British English, Irish English, English back-formations, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English back-formations: 2 35 30 17 16 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 0 32 32 20 17 Disambiguation of 'to secretively steal': 10 83 7
  3. (transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own); to pocket. Tags: British, Ireland, informal, transitive Categories (topical): Clothing
    Sense id: en-trouser-en-verb-O0RY31KG Disambiguation of Clothing: 0 17 29 28 26 Categories (other): British English, Irish English, English back-formations, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English back-formations: 2 35 30 17 16 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 0 32 32 20 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (to legally remove): pistää taskuihinsa (Finnish)
Disambiguation of 'to legally remove': 38 27 35

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2010, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn’s Britain, page 348",
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          "text": "2021 July 14, “Towns trouser cash as billions earmarked for ‘levelling up’ in U.K.”, in The Guardian:",
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          "ref": "2022 March 10, “Shell boss earns £6.3million in a year as households and motorists face cost of living crisis”, in Mirror",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 June 9, “CMC Market boss and House of Lords member Peter Cruddas set for bumper dividend as trading platform’s profits and revenue slide”, in thisismoney.co.uk",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 July 4, Feargal Sharkey, “Our taps could run dry and greedy bosses should be prosecuted, writes FEARGAL SHARKEY”, in Daily Mail",
          "text": "Worse still, the driving motivation for all too many of the bosses of water companies appears to be not to improve the environment or to secure London’s water supply but rather to trouser obscene salaries and bonuses",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 July 17, “LUCKY NUMBERS Euromillions - £191million jackpot rolls over AGAIN with whopping cash prize up for grabs on Tuesday”, in The Sun",
          "text": "The whopping sum will now be up for grabs on Tuesday when punters will have another chance to trouser the lifechanging amount.",
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          "ref": "2022 November 7, Marc Fennell, Rosanna Ryan, “When England invaded Scotland, the Stone of Destiny was stolen. Centuries later, four Scots stole it back”, in Australian Broadcasting C RN",
          "text": "A small piece of the Stone of Destiny broke off during the operation at Westminster Abbey — and Ian's son, Jamie Hamilton, still has it. / \"My father had the presence of mind to trouser it and got it set in a brooch, and gave the brooch to my mother,\" Jamie says.",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 April 19, Christian Wolmar, “We need a cross-party transport policy that supports net zero”, in RAIL, number 981, page 34",
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      "ipa": "/ˈtɹaʊzə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɹaʊzɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-aʊzə(ɹ)"
    },
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      "enpr": "trouʹzər"
    }
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or relating to trousers",
      "word": "housu-"
    }
  ],
  "word": "trouser"
}

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    "Rhymes:English/aʊzə(ɹ)",
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    "en:Clothing"
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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    },
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        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English informal terms",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Irish English"
      ],
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        "To put (money) into one's trouser pocket; to pocket."
      ],
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        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
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          "pocket",
          "pocket"
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        "(transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To put (money) into one's trouser pocket; to pocket."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "Ireland",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Irish English"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "Barr, 34, trousered the money from the pub in Lugton, Ayrshire, between January 2016 and February 2018.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use."
      ],
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          "steal"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
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        "(transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use."
      ],
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        "British",
        "Ireland",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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        "English transitive verbs",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn’s Britain, page 348",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2021 July 14, “Towns trouser cash as billions earmarked for ‘levelling up’ in U.K.”, in The Guardian:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 March 10, “Shell boss earns £6.3million in a year as households and motorists face cost of living crisis”, in Mirror",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 June 9, “CMC Market boss and House of Lords member Peter Cruddas set for bumper dividend as trading platform’s profits and revenue slide”, in thisismoney.co.uk",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 4, Feargal Sharkey, “Our taps could run dry and greedy bosses should be prosecuted, writes FEARGAL SHARKEY”, in Daily Mail",
          "text": "Worse still, the driving motivation for all too many of the bosses of water companies appears to be not to improve the environment or to secure London’s water supply but rather to trouser obscene salaries and bonuses",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 17, “LUCKY NUMBERS Euromillions - £191million jackpot rolls over AGAIN with whopping cash prize up for grabs on Tuesday”, in The Sun",
          "text": "The whopping sum will now be up for grabs on Tuesday when punters will have another chance to trouser the lifechanging amount.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 7, Marc Fennell, Rosanna Ryan, “When England invaded Scotland, the Stone of Destiny was stolen. Centuries later, four Scots stole it back”, in Australian Broadcasting C RN",
          "text": "A small piece of the Stone of Destiny broke off during the operation at Westminster Abbey — and Ian's son, Jamie Hamilton, still has it. / \"My father had the presence of mind to trouser it and got it set in a brooch, and gave the brooch to my mother,\" Jamie says.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 April 19, Christian Wolmar, “We need a cross-party transport policy that supports net zero”, in RAIL, number 981, page 34",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own); to pocket."
      ],
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          "take"
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          "keep",
          "keep"
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          "money"
        ],
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          "pocket",
          "pocket"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own); to pocket."
      ],
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        "British",
        "Ireland",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɹaʊzə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɹaʊzɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊzə(ɹ)"
    },
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    {
      "enpr": "trouʹzər"
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to legally remove",
      "word": "pistää taskuihinsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to secretively steal",
      "word": "pistää liiveihinsä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "trouser"
}

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