Words / B2

GAHM-uh-nt/ˈɡɑːmənt/

A garment is a piece of clothing (slightly formal or technical): a woollen garment; garment workers. Clothes and clothing are everyday. The textiles paper asked about the garment’s hem. Do not use garment for a single sock in casual talk unless you are in design class.

Meaning

A piece of clothing (slightly formal or technical).

Examples

• “The textiles paper asked how the garment was finished at the hem.”
• “Garment factories were named in the supply-chain report, which is the industry sense.”

Good to know

a garment; the garment industry. Everyday: clothes / an item of clothing. Design, customs, and labour news. Countable. Formal/technical.

Near in meaning

clothes

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