Meaning

(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to trousers..

Definitions by Sense

1. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to trousers.
2. (in clothing retail and fashion) A pair of trousers.
3. (transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To put (money) into one's trouser pocket; to pocket.
4. (transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use.
5. (transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own); to pocket.

Example Sentences

trouser leg

And this is our linen trouser, sir.

Your aunt told him to pack Upjohn's bags, and the first thing he saw when he smacked into it was the speech. He trousered it and brought it along to me.

Barr, 34, trousered the money from the pub in Lugton, Ayrshire, between January 2016 and February 2018.

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.

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.

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.

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

Word Forms

• trousers
• trousering
• trousered

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When Should You Use Trouser?

Use trouser when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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