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fashion | American Dictionary

fashion
noun
us/ˈfæʃ·ən/

fashionnoun (CUSTOM)

[ U ]
a custom, look, or way of doing things that is considered acceptable:
Long skirts are back in fashion this season.
Formal dinner parties seem to be out of fashion.

fashionnoun (CLOTHING)

[ C/U ]
clothing that is considered stylish:
[ U ]She has a flair for fashion.
[ C ]He plays golf and dresses in the latest fashions.

fashionnoun (MANNER)

[ U ]
a way of doing things:
The sale of the property has to be conducted in a systematic fashion.
fashion
verb[ T ]
us/ˈfæʃ·ən/

fashionverb[T] (MAKE)

to create something, using the hands or the imagination:
She fashioned an elaborate sculpture out of newspapers and glue.

fashion | Business English

fashion
noun
uk /ˈfæʃən/us
[ U ]
the business that involves producing and selling new styles, especially of clothes, shoes, hair, etc.:
The film makes fun of major figures in the fashion industry.
a fashion magazine
The fashion retailer announced a drop in YTD profits of 57%.
[ C or U ]
something that is popular at a particular time:
The fashion for outsourcing has led to a shortage of home-grown workers with good IT skills.
Social networking sites seem to be going out of fashion.
Growing your own fruit and veg is now back in fashion.

Examples of fashion

fashion
Other evils, especially those fashioned by human hands, demand our condemnation, unyielding opposition, and vigorous efforts at prevention and reparation.
Take the case of a golden ornament, fashioned out of gold.
Disciplined, resilient, intellectual, proud, contemptuous of others, immune to criticism from the outside, they are literally fashioned for survival.
His evidence is provided by changing fashions in the shape, furnishing and decoration of the council chamber - an interieure parlante, as it were.
In what are people to participate in fashioning their own immediate surroundings within a conceived overall framework?
The real challenge for political responsibility lies here, in fashioning a domestic climate where legislators promote reform rather than feeling driven to questionable regulation.
Deposits were placed into the earth, flint was taken out of the earth, monuments are fashioned out of the earth, and make it visible.
The vaulting webs could then be fashioned to fit the fixed boundary arcs.
They are clearly modelled, fashioned, and construed in relation to other cultural units.
Over the years, in a series of exhibitions and publications on the subject, it had fashioned itself into the ideological centre of modernism in architecture.
In some locations they were represented by a pair of anthropomorphic figures fashioned from wood or clay.
Most of the hotels are long gone, having fallen victim to fire or abandonment caused by changes in vacation fashions.
The fashions of veiling popular in the isles changed significantly over time, although they continued to vary depending on wealth and residence.
Such a law would give more leverage to the craftsmen who constructed federal buildings, built ships, and fashioned armor plate.
The coverage during this period was broad, including such topics as antiques, country homes, fashions, and literature.
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Collocations withfashion

fashion

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arbitrary fashion
Secondly, sounds in music seem not to function in a fundamentally arbitrary fashion.
cavalier fashion
It was wrong, and it is unacceptable to deal in such a cavalier fashion with the rights of workers as they are enshrined in law.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
changing fashion
In the nineteenth century this triangular section was generally adopted, possibly because of changingfashion but also, perhaps, because it is lighter.
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