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A button-down is defined as a shirt that has a collar fastened to the fabric with buttons.
(noun)An example of button-down is a shirt that one often wears to an interview under a suit jacket.
The definition of button-down is having buttons fastened to the fabric on the collar of a shirt or being conservative or traditional.
(adjective)- An example of button-down is the style of many business work shirts.
- An example of button-down is a person who follows tradition.
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See button-down in Webster's New World College Dictionary
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adjective
- designating a collar, as on a shirt, having points fastened by small buttons to the front of the garment
- conservative, conventional, etc.: a button-down mindalso buttoned-down
noun
a shirt with a button-down collar
See button-down in American Heritage Dictionary 4
adjective
- Having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons: a button-down shirt.
- also but·toned-down (bŭtˈnd-) Conservative, conventional, or unimaginative: “a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business” (Newsweek).
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