WINDOW DRESSING meaning: Making financials appear better temporarily

We found 29 dictionaries that define the word window dressing:

General (19 matching dictionaries)

window dressing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
window-dressing, window dressing: Merriam-Webster
window dressing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
window-dressing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
window-dressing, window-dressing: Collins English Dictionary
window-dressing, window dressing: Vocabulary.com
window-dressing: Wordnik
window dressing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
window dressing: Wiktionary
window dressing (window-dressing): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
window dressing: Infoplease Dictionary
window-dressing, window dressing: Dictionary.com
Window-dressing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
window dressing: Rhymezone
window dressing: FreeDictionary.org
window dressing: Mnemonic Dictionary
window-dressing, window dressing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
Window dressing: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
Window Dressing: Investopedia
window-dressing: Legal dictionary
window dressing: Financial dictionary
Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

window-dressing, window dressing: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

window dressing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (window dressing)

▸ noun:  The decorative display of retail merchandise in store windows; the goods and trimmings used in such a display.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The process, skill or task of creating such a display.
▸ noun:  (figurative, uncountable) A means of creating a deceptively favourable impression of something or someone; something for appearance only.

Opposite:

substance, reality, authenticity, genuineness

Types:

valance, swag, jabot, cornice, shade, blind, drapery, more...

Phrases:

a guide to window dressing, more...

Adjectives:

casemated, cased, furnaced, key, overbed, furnished, bestead, shielded, batten, ottoman, clad

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