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Definition of dress down phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

dress down

phrasal verb

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dress down

to wear clothes that are more informal than those you usually wear, for example in an officeTopics Clothes and Fashionc2

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dress somebody down

to criticize or be angry with somebody because they have done something wrong related noun dressing-down

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